Quotes from Vanessa Paradis

You know, when I eat three peas, I'm pregnant. When I visit a city, I'm buying a house.

You fall for who the chemistry is with.

It amuses me when I'm described as 'chic.'

I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.

I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.

I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that.

It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.

There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.

I was for sure not prepared for fame when it happened.

My daughter loves singing above all else.

Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.

Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?

Women are the real superheroes because they're not just working. They have a life and everything.

As long as you're fully present in what you're doing at the moment, you're doing it.

The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.

People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.

In the winter I separate, in the summer I marry. It's been 15 years since I've been getting married every year.

My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.

It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.

I am a complete sentimentalist when it comes to clothes. I have so many memories attached to them that I can't throw anything out.

Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.

I just like putting outfits together without much thought and seeing what the outcome is.

If your heart is in love, you can do anything.

Love starts with a gut feeling, but that gut feeling better be nourished.