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.

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

I spend a lot of time writing in New York.

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 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.

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.