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"My husband is a general's chauffeur somewhere in France."
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"The best thing I know between France and England is the sea."
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"The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past."
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"When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key."
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"Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs."
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"Well, I grew up between Holland and Israel and then moved to France when I was eleven."
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"France needs to find something that makes it stand out. It's not enough for it to do almost as well as its neighbors."
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"I always knew I would live in France."
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"In France, everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool. Gives 'em, gives 'em an excuse to smoke."
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"France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme."
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"Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end."
End

"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."
Control

"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."
Music

"I spend a lot of time writing in New York."
Time

"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."
Movies

"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."
Play

"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."
Being

"I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite."
Nothing

"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."
Home

"I'm always on a train or a plane, so wherever I happen to be is home."
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