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It took a long time for some people to have success and it happened fast for you. How are you living that?
Fast. Itís strange because it happened quite fast, I agree with you, but since I was 11 years old, I have worked in the music industry.
Since I was 11, I have been to school only for a half year. During that time, I was working. I was trained with a lot of teachers: un professeur? Une professeuse? Oh! ***! Sorry! Iím quite tired.
Iím lucky. Iím lucky to do what I do, firstly and to earn my living with that and secondly, Iím lucky to have success.
At the beginning, some record companies didnít want some of your songs and thatís why you wrote Grace Kelly. Do you think about that before going on stage?
Do you have a feeling of revenge? You want to tell them ìthere are 10 000 people, you made a mistakeî?
The revenge doesnít exist. English Every time I try the revenge, it doesnít satisfy me. But I think about that like I said it tonight before singing ìBilly Brownî.
I remember. I sent the song to my record company in the USA and it was completely nervous. ìYou canít release a song like that. Thatís impossible. They canít support it. Itís a suicide.î
Iím not doing records for the stores, Iím not even doing records for the radio. Iím doing my records for myself.
Are you surprised about the success you have now because the way was hard or now it has been one year since youíre on tour, do you begin to be accustomed by the passion of the public?
I protect myself a lot, I have a quite discreet life. I have always my family around me, I have all my friends,
My friends are with me on tour and tonight my cousin was dancing with me on stage in a corset. She was my big girl.
Yeah. Iím surprised, yes, of course. At the same time, I realize that if we have the chance to have a platform and attention to do what I do,
we must enjoy it and we must work quite hard. That's why we work hard.
You always compose or is it by periods?
All the time. Itís important. Itís part of my life. Always.
Is there a goal? Is there a new albumÖ?
Of course. I was doing demos for the second album while I was recording the first album but I wonít tell anything.
The success of the first album brings you some pressure for the second one or not? Youíll be more waited.
We sell 10 000 tickets in 4 days. It brings some pressure, no? But we enjoy it. We must, we mustÖ
But it can be a positive pressure?
Itís a positive pressure exactly but itís important to protect itself to not change it in a negative pressure. Itís so much easy and there so many *** in this life.
We have the feeling that you want to stay a big child.
- A big child? - Yes - Why not?
Is it important for you?
No itís not important but I have fun. I do what I wantÖseriously. I work but I keep my eyes opened. I donít sell my heart. It's not worth the trouble.
Youíre an artist who grew with internet. Does it change something in your music and in the communication with the fans and with the audience?
Absolutely. It changes everything. It changed completely the industry.
Iím lucky but it can be dangerous because we used to have big men with a lot of money in record companies, someone like Pascal NËgre with his big cigar and his champagne goblet sitting in an office.
ìAh ok we will wait. In 6 months, we will release the record here and in 7 months in Australia and then we will wait and maybe in one year we will go to Russia but we will tell them that we will go there but weíre not gonna go.î
Now, itís impossible. They canít do that. We put the music on internet and everybody has my album exactly at the same time.
Because of that, it began naturally and organically in countries around the world: in Hong Kong, in Australia, in France, in England, in the USA and we couldnít control that.
Because of that, weíre always on tour and weíre lucky because to be on tour is more important than everything now. We have access to the music on internet but we can really watch the artists we prefer. It changed everything.
Are you a multimedia artist? Do you control the video? Do you control all the aspects of your creation?
Itís importantÖI donít like controlling but itís important to influence and to create what we want with all the aspects of the album.
I hate music videos. Thatís horrible. I donít think that mine are really great.
I think it changed a lot and Iíd like to reinvent that, do it in the old style. Itís not so necessary to have a music video which costs 1 000 000 dollars.
Now, I like the idea to have 10 music videos which are doing in different ways and forget the TV channels and put it on internet. We can do what we want.
Itís unbelievable and it has nothing to do with money because everybody has an access. Everybody can put what they want on internet. What is good will have much success and what is bad wonít.