Growing up in Versailles is like growing up in a museum, and the people living there are almost the security.

The idea is not to please the most amount of people. Growing up in Versailles, the idea was to please the least amount of people.

It's hard to write new stuff when the songs you have written before are still changing and evolving. It would be like building something when the foundations there are not really solid.

There are different kinds of artists: the ones that inspire you, and the ones that overwhelm you.

I think, as a player, we have to work and fight for our dream, and this makes us grow up. We get old quickly - we leave our families to run for our dreams.

I think freedom for Palestine could be an incredible source of hope to people struggling all over the world. I think it could also be an incredible inspiration to Arab people in the Middle East, who are struggling under undemocratic regimes which the U.S. supports.

People talk about great motivators, but I think motivation has to come from within the individual first, because if you haven't got that inner strength yourself, and belief and you want to do well, it doesn't matter what anybody else says. You have to have that; it has to be inbuilt.

There are stages in life in which you have to bring things to a close because of motivation.