Top 16 Quotes by 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 or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.

If I look at it, it's about being able to get lost in New York, to explore the city, to have more personal stories about New York, although some could also take place in Paris.

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

I spend a lot of time writing in New York.

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

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.

Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.

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

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