With electronic music, you are not confined to the acoustics of a concert-hall, and that inspired me to bring my performances outdoors.

For me, electronic music is like cooking: it's a sensual organic activity where you can mix ingredients.

I don't necessarily like anniversaries that much.

I'm convinced that the earth is much stronger than us.

I had no precise plan when I started 'Electronica,' but I think it has been a very positive journey for me.

When I began making electronic music, the only thing I was thinking about was creating music that I really liked. I didn't think about what effect it would have; I was busy doing it.

In my opinion, British women are more romantic than French ones.

Generation after generation, there is this never-ending, contemptuous, condescending attitude to the next generation or the next way of thinking: music, art, politics, whatever. And I have never been like that.

I studied classical music in the Conservatory of Paris.

I feel very privileged to have played China, and the pyramids, all these fantastic places, but it created a kind of smoke curtain between the audience and me as a musician.

I did the first 'Oxygene' on an 8 tracks tape recorder with very few instruments, with no other choice than being minimalist.

With the violin, for example, one understands culturally that the sound comes from the instrument that can be seen. With electronic music, it is not the same at all. That's why it seemed so important to me, from the beginning of my career, to invent a grammar, a visual vocabulary adapted to electronic music.

'Oxygene' was one of the first, if not the first, popular electronic music album.

CDs are not as good as vinyl, and you buy one in the supermarket along with the yoghurt.

The whole 'Electronica' project is about the ambiguous relationship we have with technology: on the one side, we have the world in our pocket; on the other, we are spied on constantly.

I understand more when I travel why people believe that the French are arrogant.

My father and I never really achieved a real relationship. We probably saw each other 20 or 25 times in our lifetime.

People are rejecting the power of the elite, but individuals such as Snowden are doing so in a positive way, trying to change things for the better. He is a very intelligent man and obviously interested in electronic music.

I think that in any language when you have a real relationship, and there is love and respect between people, infidelity is always something difficult to accept - whether you are Chinese, British, French. I think that is a universal concept... or problem.

When I heard Edward Snowden's story, it reminded me of my mother in a strange way. She was in the French resistance from early on, 1941. At that time, the Resistance were considered troublemakers - even traitors - in France.

Saying that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say.

Suddenly, we are putting ourselves as the next dinosaurs. It's rather dark; we have narrowed our dreams. It is time to restore our visions. And so it's not a nostalgic idea; it is based with this unconscious need to restore a kind of dynamic for tomorrow.

The difference between noise and music is in what the musician does with the sounds.

Technology is neutral, but it all depends on the way we use it.