Keren Ann

I'm very attached to Paris because I have a base there and am also recording there, but New York is home to…

— Keren Ann

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

— Keren Ann

If I look at it, it's about being able to get lost in New York, to explore the city, to have more…

— Keren Ann

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

— Keren Ann

When you record, you live with what you recorded for many many years, but when you play it's just an hour and…

— Keren Ann

I spend a lot of time writing in New York.

— Keren Ann

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

— Keren Ann

The first thing about a song is that it has to be real, be lived; it has to be emotional, and melancholic.…

— Keren Ann

So usually even if you like a sentence or a story or something, it won't come out that way - it'll come…

— Keren Ann

It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs.

— Keren Ann

I like the idea of having a calm, quiet room to work on my [art] while knowing that outside there's noise and…

— Keren Ann

Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.

— Keren Ann

It's just trying everyday to do the best you can and to enjoy what you have with the mixture of the venue…

— Keren Ann

I like the fact that there is challenge.

— Keren Ann

I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has…

— Keren Ann

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

— Keren Ann

It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that's probably the only time…

— Keren Ann

I believe that the beauty of repetition is something that is not explored enough yet.

— Keren Ann

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent…

— Keren Ann

I don't have a favorite place to play.

— Keren Ann

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…

— Keren Ann

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

— Keren Ann

I like to capture moments. It's like a photograph. Ten years from now you look at the photograph and you don't remember…

— Keren Ann

You have to love writing a song and architecture. You have to give it a form. It is my job to create…

— Keren Ann