Top 16 Quotes by Keren Ann

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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 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.