JR
JR
NationalityFrench
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth22 February 1983
CountryFrance
until
Well, my mother, I knew until I was 13. She died when I was 13.
american-musician space
The two are unrelated. I'm not into turtles or space stuff.
played tons
I had tons of friends, played ball with my friends on the street, and did the normal things.
enjoying life trying
I'm having a lot of fun, enjoying my life and trying to raise my children.
love onstage
All the satisfaction I need... comes when I step out onstage and see the people. That's awesome. I love that.
home kids matter miss months road time work
Before I had kids I'd go out on the road for months and months at a time, but now I don't think I'd want to do that anymore, because I'd miss too much time at home, so it's just a matter of monitoring how much work that I do and how much time I'm on the road.
almost american-musician drowned
Everything that I have professionally, and so much of what I have personally, is because of this great, fair city, and to see it being drowned like this is almost unbearable.
hard lives music saving work
I practice and work hard at my music, but I'm not saving lives here.
dreams
I have those dreams that you can't put into words.
bills created electric far guy insular life lining pay phone silver somebody sort
I mean, you know, you're looking at a guy who has a manager, who's created a life for me that - I mean, I don't pay phone bills and electric bills. I have somebody to do that for me. I've been very, very lucky. And I live in this insular sort of world, you know, so everything's, you know, everything's got a silver lining as far as I'm concerned.
science
I was interested in science before I even knew what science was.
basis earliest fascinated science trying utopian
Also by my earliest days, I was fascinated by a utopian vision of what the world could be like. I've thought that science could be the basis for a better world, and that's what I've been trying to do all these years.
earliest fascinated
From my earliest days, I was fascinated by science.
area biological biology chemistry industrial next sciences scientific stem
Industrial opportunities are going to stem more from the biological sciences than from chemistry and physics. I see biology as being the greatest area of scientific breakthroughs in the next generation.