In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them.

It was very difficult to go from relative anonymity to such huge success in such a short space of time.

I have several plan Bs: I want to become a sailor; I like to draw; I would love to learn many things, but I don't have time.

I like the light that comes off metal shutters at siesta time in the summer, having a break from driving in the shops at motorway services, the odour of petrol at petrol stations, rolling down little slopes. I hate it when you tread in a puddle and the water soaks your socks.

It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.