Keren Ann Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.