36 Quotes by Keren Ann

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.

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.

I spend a lot of time writing in New York.

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

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.

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.

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.

I believe that the beauty of repetition is something that is not explored enough yet.

You have to love writing a song and architecture. You have to give it a form. It is my job to create a sonic landscape. I like to create ambiance and atmosphere. The writing is the intimate part of it. It is a sketch. The production is the whole painting.