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I am typically French.

I've been learning French a bit through my work with Longchamp, and I've been in France quite a lot. And I really love how they express themselves. I especially love when something is untranslatable.

I do consider myself as being French, I suppose.

I like to provoke. I'm very French.

I speak French fluently, so that really helped.

I read French much better than I speak.

I work, play and do everything in French.

You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules.

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.