Born in June 1914, before the start of World War I, Colette Maze has been playing the piano for more than 100 years and as she practices for four hours a day, Maze is about to release her seventh album, "108 Years of Piano".

"Me? I'm young," she says smiling from her apartment in Paris that has three pianos in the living room.  

"Age is not something I'm interested in. There are people who are forever young, amazed by everything, and then there are people who don't care about anything and never loved anything, even their man -- can you imagine?" she says, adding that she was a piano teacher for much of her life and only started a Facebook page after turning 100.

Her good health and enjoyment of French delicacies have triggered people's interest in her, as her son and journalist Fabrice Maze, stated, "She gives people strength -- that's why she has such crazy success."

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She still recalls the sound of "Big Bertha", the cannon used by the Germans during World War I and how her "mother would play violin with my piano teacher -- it would calm me" to ease her asthma as a child.

"Piano is my life, my friend. I need to feel it and hear it," she said, as she played her favorite composer, Claude Debussy's "Reflections in the Water."

Maze started playing the piano at the age of five years old and won a seat in the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, which housed teachers such as the renowned Alfred Cortot who was known for a method of relaxing all the body's muscles.

Maze credits that for sparing her from suffering arthritis, but the other reason for her energetic youth is "a lot of dancing."

"I need to feel my muscles, my abdominals, my thighs, my arms. All that must be alive."