Every time I make a record, it's a gem with different facets, and every time I like to explore a different side. The core is the same, it never changes, but I try to create a different shape.

You just have to be adventurous and that's the way I like to work. I think that's the role of the artist, to do something difficult, doing it first for himself. That's my definition of sincerity.

There are so many bands always doing the same album over and over; I want to evolve, try new things.

Sometimes when you record an album in the end, there are things here and there you regret production wise or in composition.

I always tried to make a diverse album in terms of emotions and sounds.

Sometimes people think that that you are going softer, or you are going mainstream, but that's not true. It's way more true to change your style.

It's always good to go from a heavy song to a softer one. It helps having the attention of the audience for the whole show - three hours of the same songs for the whole show is boring.

It was always a great challenge: how can I make a dreampop album that's still very Alcest, but not a ripoff - how to keep the core.

And thenwe no longer distinguish far nor nearThey sleepdreamgather branchesfor this firethe cloud brewsagainst the powerless day —Long line of fugitivesbeneath the snow

Self-affirm—build yourself up with honest and genuine praise.

My music doesn't exist in a vacuum; there's a script and there's an actor and it's about to come together.

Ah, what without a heaven would be even love!--a perpetual terror of the separation that must one day come.

An ill labourer quarrells with his tooles.

The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.

With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense.

I am the boss of me. You can't change anyone else. Women think they can. But you know what? You can't.

Darling, do you remember the man you married? Touch me, remind me who I am.

Crime in multi-storey car parks. That is wrong on so many different levels.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.