Perhaps French people are just really sarcastic

'Sir Mick Jagger fell in love with the French countryside and likes the fact that he can pass unrecognised there. He was reportedly asked by a chateau owner near his home outside Amboise, on the Loire: "So what do you do in life, young man?"'

- The Sunday Times, 19 March 2006

[Note: Mick Jagger is 62 years old]