Top 43 Quotes & Sayings by Carla Bruni

My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.

But I'm very careful with opinions because I never know what the truth is. When I read what the press says about me, I don't really believe what it says about other people.

I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.

It's always astounded me to have succeeded at having kids. It's crazy!

I care about writing music and playing my music.

I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.

When I met Eric Clapton, I was a very young girl. I was 20 years old. And we were linked for a very short time, and then we became friends. And then we lost touch, which I'm really sorry about.

My dream life is just to go back to my job full-time. And be with my family. You know, regular dreams, common dreams that everyone has.

I hoped that, you know, France wouldn't mind about, you know, the wife of their president to having a job.

I only judge people in one way. I like them or I don't. But I don't have preconceived ideas.

I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength; it just gives loneliness.

I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day.

Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.

It would never occur to me to judge anyone.

I love English rock music the best and have always been fascinated by The Clash, especially Joe Strummer, their singer.

I like peace and solitude and silence.

I think it would be shocking for me to pretend not to have any past. And also, it would be a lie.

I'm not really a femme fatale.

In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.

I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.

I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.

I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!

Feminism is just like HIV awareness: It's not something we don't need anymore, it's something that is just as important as it was a few decades ago. It is a very important fight.

I'm crazy about Israel. It's full of life.

Many young people are not having safe sex because they think medicines will make everything okay. The thing about these medicines is that you often have to take them your whole life. They can be very aggressive chemicals for your body. Just because you don't hear of as many people around you dying from HIV/AIDS - just like how it was in the '80s and '90s - you can still die. I'd say to someone who's very young to protect themselves and protect their lives. There's nothing safer than not catching this virus. It's having something that never goes out of your system.

I think the important thing being a wife of a president is to know who you are and find a cause that corresponds to you. The truth is, it's hard to keep a job in that position. I kept playing music because no one could stop me from playing music at night.

Public people are definitely captives. It wasn't really my ambition, but that's what happened. If I could find another word that would be more precise, I'd tell that I'm captive of my need for acknowledgement. People ask me, "Isn't it terrible to be famous?" Not for me! I sort of need it. To be honest, I always enjoyed it. It's as if it gave me some structure. It's as if I needed someone else's eyes to look at myself.

I can no longer seduce because I love my husband. I don’t want to hurt him. I am no longer a man-eater.

I do think it's smart to see a marriage as "a garden and a gardener who constantly swap roles." You really have to switch from one to another. Being the gardener would be the more active role in the situation. Being a garden would be more passive. You've got to be both the one who gets help and the one that's helping. That's the circulation in a couple. You should switch from one position to another. I think it's good to be always aware that love can fade. There's something I really like about that sentence. It's as if love should be seen as work...because it is.

Now I'm not going to go, "Oh my God, what are people saying about me?" I had a choice to be a student and not become a model, and becoming a doctor was another one of my dreams. I had a choice between not becoming a singer or becoming a songwriter and writing behind the scenes; nobody would have seen me writing songs for other people. I had the choice of not marrying my man; we could have just been hidden lovers, but I couldn't cope with it. I had these choices to do all these things, so I'm not going to cry over a life which has been really lucky.

I never think about what people are going think about me.

Love lasts a long time but burning desire lasts two to three weeks.

I want a man with nuclear power.

Everyone needs acknowledgement. When we're kids, we need it from our parents. If you don't get love from your family, you're destroyed inside.

I realized that women are still not seen as equal to men. We had a big wave of feminism just before my generation was born. We're still sitting on this wave. There are very militant people and very aggressive women at the top of that wave but I think we have a new version of it now.

I'm monogamous from time to time, but I prefer polygamy and polyandry.

I just want to say, I'm not interest in politics. Politics is my husband, and since he's not interested in politics anymore, then I'm not interested in politics. I wish good luck to Mr and Mrs Trump, I wish good luck to Mr and Mrs Macron, and I don't care, do you understand?

We don't need to be feminist in my generation.

To me, the most poetic and intelligent way to bring up a subject is by showing very simply who you are and what you believe in.

I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me.

People can have political opinions and put them into songs. I'd never deliberately do that, but that's a personal choice I'm inspired by my man but not by his previous position. I'm more inspired by people that are left out by society.

When I was having my hair and make-up done backstage at a fashion show, I would sneak in a copy of Dostoevsky and read it inside a copy of Elle or Vogue. But it would be pretentious of me to say I was more intelligent than the other supermodels.

Let's face it, fashion was destroyed by HIV. People would just die like flies in the eighties. Then, my brother died of HIV, so I was shaken by it in a way that you cannot imagine. It has sadly been in my life ever since and affected it for such a long time. It won't let go. To me, it's a fight that's not finished. Of course, there are medicines that help, but half the world has no access to them.