Sometimes, you try something, and it works in terms of success. That doesn't mean you like what is a hit. Sometimes you like the most obscure song on your album.

In a lifetime, you can say, yes, you have instances of pleasure, of happiness, you like some of your work, but your work is the entire story, and if you are not satisfied with a few moments of a few parts of that story, you would like to be able to adjust that.

We have lost our vision for the future. Before, we say, 'Nothing will be the same. Cars will fly, and we go to the end of the universe.' We have this kind of naive but exciting idea of the future. Now, the vision has been reduced to ways to select our garbage and how to survive global warming.

Emotions are the basics of any art form!

I have always been of the opinion that when those in power are promoting actions and ideals that risk harming or impeding us, people should stand up to this.

Snowden has demonstrated true love for his country. He has done something to improve the lives of people.

I always dreamed, when I started writing music, to find a way of immersing yourself in it.

People who do music do it because it is all they can do. And that's me, I suppose. I can do nothing else.

I would say to anyone starting out that if their priority in life is happiness, then don't be a musician.

Pursuing music eats into your life to the point where there is no space left for anything else. You are lucky if you find a partner who is able to understand that, but even then, they will only understand it for a while, and then things get - you know, difficult.

I wanted to create a bridge between experimental music and pop.

The major rock instruments and classical instruments were designed for performance, for sharing the music with an audience, and then later people put microphones on them and recorded them. But for electronic music, the opposite was true - they're designed in laboratories, and later, we tried to put them on stage.

If you get rid of music, images, videos, words and literature from the smartphone, you just have a simple phone that would be worth $50.

Music, photography, media, film - it's all going to be free on the Internet. We have to accept it.

Think about when you listen to a song on the radio. You are not paying for it; it's not illegal to do it, because the rights have been paid for on top, beforehand, by the radio station, by the network. We have to find exactly the same kind of system with the Internet.

We should never forget that in the smartphone, the smart part is us creators.

I thought we had opposite visions of electronic music. Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk had a very robotic, mechanical approach. I had a more impressionist vision - a Ravel/Debussy approach.

I was obsessed with the idea that no two sounds on 'Oxygene' should ever be exactly the same. I wanted a heartbeat feel, something human.

When I first heard Kraftwerk, I thought they were an American band singing in German.

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

Technology does not always rhyme with perfection and reliability. Far from it in reality!

I've always been involved in the visual aspect of my work, and moreover, it's very important in days where technology allows us to push the boundaries even more than when I started out.

At the time, 'Oxygene' was considered a totally 'far out' concept... What was 'in' at the time was disco, hard-rock, and the early days of punk... and moreover, 'Oxygene' was instrumental. And I was French!

I used to play in rock bands. Then I went to the first school of electronic music in the world. It was in Paris headed by one of the most important people involved in electronic music.

What is very interesting when talking about electronic music is that - I would say that rock and roll is called the ethnic music born in America that invaded the world. Electronic music is certainly kind of ethnic music born in countries like Germany and France that has invaded the world.

My first synthesizer was the VCS3. I got it in Bristol in the late Sixties, long before Pink Floyd used them. I had to sell an acoustic guitar and an old reel-to-reel tape recorder to raise the money. You can do fantastic things with modern computers, but you cannot use them in the same intuitive, spontaneous way you can a VCS3.

Back in the Seventies, we had a romantic, poetic vision of the future, like it was in the movie '2001: A Space Odyssey.' It felt as if everything was still ahead of us.

I collect robots. They're mainly Japanese, American, and especially Russian - small robots, big robots, and old toy robots made between 1910 and the Fifties.

What is important to me is that the world understand that the problems of the Dead Sea concern not only residents of the region but humanity.

My mother, who was in the Resistance in the Second World War, passed away at 96, and it was like she was 60. I almost have to apologise for my genes.

The paradox is that Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and all the tech giants are bigger fans of music than some of the executives working at major record companies.

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

I just had one occasion in my life when suddenly my private life was everywhere, and that was an accident and beyond my control.

As a musician, I have always strived for my albums and live performance to render a sound as close as possible to perfection.

In electronic music, staying behind your laptop for two hours is not too exciting to watch.

I remember, for my fifth birthday, Chet Baker sat me on the upright piano, and he played just for me for a few minutes. I can still remember the pressure of the air on my chest. It was my first physical contact with sound.

All those ethereal string sounds on 'Oxygene IV' come from the VCS3. It was the first European synthesizer, made in England by a guy called Peter Zinoviev. I got one of the first ones.

I wanted to find a bridge between Musique Concrete, electro-acoustic music, and proper rock music.

The characteristic of 'Oxygene' is a mixture of innocence and ambition, of trying to do something different in a different way.

Early music in all kinds of movements is always a mixture of innocence and ambition.

Dance fascinates me, and it is perhaps the most enriching audio-visual realm for a musician. Film-making also fascinates me.

I leave everyone to have their own opinions of my music and my influence - or not - on others.

This project, 'Electronica,' is about working with people who are a strong source of inspiration to me.

Peace is neutral, and not very sexy.

I want the Dead Sea, like Masada, to be part of UNESCO's world heritage.

I have played a few times in Barcelona, including the fantastic Olympic Stadium. It's undoubtedly one of my favourite cities in terms of the people, arts, food, architecture and design.

My first break was in my home country with some pop songs that became hits, writing for French singers Christophe & Francoise Hardy, which became hits.