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.

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

Peace is neutral, and not very sexy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!