Yann Tiersen

I love working and writing new songs. But sometimes you need to wait, to have something in your mind, and then you can let yourself play music.

I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.

When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.

We played a gig and we had a song that was offensive to people of the Jewish persuasion, and we led off with it, and they were offended by it, and that was that.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.

I am convinced that the reason so many fans leave Dodger Stadium after the seventh inning is that they become bored.