I love her answer to the marriage question! That is so true, children are the biggest commitment you can make.

What a treat to read an interview with Vanessa Paradis - I absolutely love her!! She sounds like a wonderful, devoted and very down-to-earth mum.

I absolutely agree with her comment on marriage. My partner and I have been together for over seven years and are planning to have children together very soon, but have no plans to get married. To me, children are a far bigger commitment, as they're for life. Johnny Depp's been married once before and engaged four or five times, so clearly doesn't make any difference to his commitment to Vanessa and his children!

I do like the idea, however, of getting married after having children, so they can share in the day as well. I'm sure Vanessa and Johnny's wedding will be beautiful.

Wow. You can tell in several spots that she really didn't care for the tone of that interview. It's a shame, really, that the interviewer tried to lead her so much in certain questions. I'm sure she would have given lovely answers, instead of sounding so defensive.

Hmmm. I'd make a nuance, children are not the biggest commitment, but probably one of the biggest commitment. Some couples has lasted for years, are very strong and childfree.

So nice to hear from her! I don't think I've ever read an interview with her. She and Johnny are great together, and their family is close and beautiful, they live part-time in the South of France (where I've lived too)what more can one ask for? Great interview, thanks.

The album she did with Lenny Kravitz (he produced) is really quite good. I've been a fan of Vanessa since buying it years ago.

Very interesting interview. She wasn't willing to let that journalist lead her around by the neck. I admire her spirit, but wonder if most readers are subtle enough to catch on, or just walk away thinking she's a word that rhymes with witch. She and Johnny seem a little too thoughtful to just blithely shake off the distortions of fame. I have to wonder if that doesn't make life a wee bit harder for them. Makes me grateful for my anonymous life!

no, you have not been married for so long. having children is a commitment, but it is not marriage.

I simply do not understand how people can all-of-a-sudden ignore 6,000 years of recorded history, with marriage being how a family unit WORKED. I think that we will someday see how big a mistake it was to push it aside. (****let the games begin**** :)

What commitment does a marriage hold when you can just as easily get a divorce. Marriage doesn't mean anyhting more than having a stranger telling you are commited to each other. Commitment should come from within not from a piece of paper.

Having children is not being married, it is a far bigger commitment than that.

I think its a bit sad that we almost never get to see their children, Lily Rose and Jack. I understand they don`t like the papparazzis, thats why they moved to south France. But its a bit weird how they manage to protect them so much against fame and photographers, when most celeb babies are seen far more often,no matter where they live. And I understand thats why the interwiever asks about Lily Rose wanting to act or sing when shes about ten years old, because that way we would get to see lots more of her. And maybe her brother too.

I love Vanessa but sometimes I can't stand when she is a bit rude to interviewers.

I'm personally a fan of marriage because mine has been great so far. And I support all types of marriage -- I believe it is an amazing commitment between two people.

I do find it odd that so many celebrities these days get pregnant and have kids while they are still basically in the dating stage. I'm thinking more of people like Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams (not Vanessa and Johnny Depp, who appear to have a very commited longterm partnership).

I don't know, maybe celebrity marriages have become such a farce that they all figure "Why bother?"

So do you think that Vanessa and Johnny's commitment to each other is less just because they haven't signed some piece of paper?

Do you believe that Johnny Depp's two year marriage to Lori Allison years ago was more significant than his relationship with Vanessa Paradis, who he's been with for nine years and has two children with?

The most committed couples in Hollywood that I can think of are all unmarried - Johnny and Vanessa, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robinson, Oprah Winfrey and Stedman Graham...

Johnny has joked that he doesnt want to marry her because it would ruin her beautiful surname! Either way its completely irrelevant, from wat I hav seen, as a fan of them both, they are more in love and devoted than any other couple I can think of. For them marriage is another invite to unwelcome publicity and speculation.There are some lovely pics of their kids on youtube, along with the song La Ballade De Lily Rose,which vanessa wrote 4 her, its beautiful! If they ever split it really will make me question a lot of stuff, for me as an 18 year old Vanessa is a true role model

I think the "rudeness" come from the language difference. She speaks English very well, but it's not her first language and she didn't learn it well until her teens. Some of the more harsh answers I think are more an issue of her trying to clarify the question, or just a style difference because of her knowledge of the language. I lived in Italy for 6 years as a kid (military dad). I speak Italian very well now, but there are little conversational nuances that if you haven't mastered make you sound harsh, or crass, or just different. I think it's obvious in her quotes that this is part of the issue.

Andria I totally agree, I was thinking that the text was translated perhaps as well? Anyway I feel that (unless they're hurting someone) they have every right to live their lives the way they want, married or not, children in public or not.

Do we know if the interview hasnt been translated from French? Since the mag is Belgian? I dont think she sounds too harsh and that she hasnt mastered the nuances of the English languages yet, I think it might be just the translation from French to English with this interview.

The song Jackadi is very pretty and sweet, and little Jack is ADORABLE, he sings 'popeye the sailor man' and the beginning its so cute.

The magazine is in Dutch, so it could be that the interview was in English or French and then translated to Dutch for the magazine and after that translated to English from Dutch for this site.

It could definately lead to a different tone I think.

But I don't think she sounds rude myself!