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.

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.

Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.

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.

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