Dreamers' was because I really wanted to go back after I heard so much nonsense about '68. I wanted to go back to what for me was '68, when young people thought that they could change the world.

Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.

The conformist understands that the reason of his desperate look for conformism is that he realises he is different and that he never accepted his difference.

I remember being young in the 1960s... we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.

Democracy for people who are not used to it can undermine stability, resulting in war.

Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.

Sitting around our kitchen table from a very early age on, we talked politics, and we talked policy. Never once can I ever remember my dad saying, 'Go away, this is an adult conversation.'

Russia has nothing: no successful politics or economy.