Keren Ann Quotes

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in.

I think it's very good to have regrets, to learn how to live with them.

I'm always on a train or a plane, so wherever I happen to be is home.

I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air.

I spend a lot of time writing in New York.

So usually even if you like a sentence or a story or something, it won't come out that way - it'll come out years later, and in a different way, and you don't really control that.

I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite.

I'm very attached to Paris because I have a base there and am also recording there, but New York is home to me when I'm in the U.S., because it's nice to have a bed to go back to.

I think many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen.

When you record, you live with what you recorded for many many years, but when you play it's just an hour and a half and then once it's over it's over.

Well, I grew up between Holland and Israel and then moved to France when I was eleven.

Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.

I like the idea of having a calm, quiet room to work on my [art] while knowing that outside there's noise and a lot happening. It's reassuring to know the 'everyday' continues even though inside the studio you feel so disconnected from it.

It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that's probably the only time I get to get my real sleep. When I can't sleep I read books or watch movies.

When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.