Creative industries are more important than the car industry, luxury jewels, and fashion.

We all think we are connected to the world now, but we are not talking to our neighbours any more.

I consider music like a mirage in the desert. You're obsessed with the ideal piece of music, and the more you think you're getting closer, it's not there.

It's sometimes better to have a father figure to rebel against than nothing, than just a black hole or an absence.

Saying that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say.

With the violin, for example, one understands culturally that the sound comes from the instrument that can be seen. With electronic music, it is not the same at all. That's why it seemed so important to me, from the beginning of my career, to invent a grammar, a visual vocabulary adapted to electronic music.