I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.
When I'm flying, I really like to listen to piano music. Something impressionistic, loud and beautiful. Flying can be such a claustrophobic experience, it's nice to open that up a bit with music.
I love the conversation between film and music.
I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself, that there aren't really any rules.
On the last album, I didn't want to disturb the melody with too many stories. This time, I wanted to know if I was able to create images with words, with the sound of words.(...) I think that’s a good thing when the one who is listening, is feeling it in a different way that the one who creates. We are all listening with different perspectives.(...) I don’t want to impose my subjectivity to the listener.
There was a band very early on in our class, and I played in that band and as a teenager, I continued. It was more from my own relationship with the instruments at this time, figuring out the instrument and then having to learn different pieces that I really got into music. I really discovered the almost transcending power of music. And I think that is why I am so into it.
The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.
Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.
Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.
The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.
The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices.
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