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My family is basically Gypsies - for real.

I am so romantic about Gypsies. They're not allowed to do anything until they get married. So they all get married really young, at sixteen.

Every June, Gypsies come in caravans from all over Europe to honor Django Reinhardt at a festival in Samois-sur-Seine. When I was little, I started hanging out with them. They fascinated me - they really, literally, live in the moment. They take every day as if it's their last.

I've always been a bit of a gypsy.

I am a gypsy, in a way. It's a condition of my profession.

The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.

I'm a gypsy: no education, no schooling, nothing. I don't care what people think of me. I don't care about being a hero, a role model, a champion.

I'm the gypsy man. I don't really live anywhere. I've got a roof over my head in Los Angeles, and I've got a lot of friends everywhere.

I'm from a Gypsy background!