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

I spend a lot of time writing in New York.
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 a half and then once it's over it's over.
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 personal stories about New York, although some could also take place in Paris.
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 me when I'm in the U.S., because it's nice to have a bed to go back to.
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 I get to get my real sleep. When I can't sleep I read books or watch movies.
Keren Ann

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.
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 out years later, and in a different way, and you don't really control that.
Keren Ann