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I've always felt more at home in the UK than in France.

I think America and Britain have a different culture from France. They discovered marketing and consumerism before France.

The bands you like and know that are French are always outsiders in the French music industry - Daft Punk, Air.

No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.

The French have got taste.

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.

I love France. France is a nice place.

I've always got on very well with the French, perhaps because I'm very natural.

We know that the French are very different from the Americans in their satisfaction with life. They're much less satisfied. Americans are pretty high up there, while the French are quite low - the world champions in life satisfaction are actually the Danes.

I always had a lot of fun in America, with much more freedom than if I had tried to cook in France. I wouldn't have the same motivation or inspiration, and I wouldn't have cooked for the same kind of people in France, so it wouldn't have given me this edge I had in America.