PARIS (AFP) — France's first lady Carla Bruni says she plans to stick with her music career after her third pop album hits the shelves in July, in a book interview to be published on Thursday.
In "Carla and Nicolas, the true story," written by two French journalists, the 40-year-old supermodel-turned-singer is quoted as saying she had "no intention of changing jobs."
"What is going to change is that I won't be performing on stage. For as long as my husband is president of the republic. But it's not as if I was a stage animal like Janis Joplin or the Rolling Stones!
"And look, Madonna is about to start a tour at her age. I've still got time."
Bruni, a catwalk model who veered into music in her mid-thirties, married Sarkozy in February after a three-month romance and has said she will be his wife "until death."
In the book she described their first meeting, at a Paris dinner hosted by the French advertising guru Jacques Seguela.
"On November 13, Seguela called me to confirm dinner that evening. I asked who would be there and he listed the names, also mentioning Nicolas Sarkozy.
"I was simply very curious to go. And when I arrived I realised that it was a blind date. Well, not so blind really. There were three couples and the two of us, both single."
The couple talked all night and Bruni invited Sarkozy to dinner again the following day, kicking off their whirlwind courtship.
Due out in July, Bruni's new album features 14 songs including a vintage Bob Dylan tune and a piece based on a poem by French author Michel Houellebecq, according to her agent.
She composed the music and wrote the lyrics to most of the tracks, most of which were written before she met Sarkozy.
Among the brow-raising titles on the album is a song called "Ma came", a reference to drugs that is in fact a love song written more than two years ago.
Bruni's 2002 album "Quelqu'un M'a Dit" (Someone Told Me) sold two million copies worldwide. But her second release "No Promises" in 2007 was considered a disappointment with only 80,000 copies sold. The album featured English poems set to music.
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