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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Everyone has too much of something, whether it’s time, talent or treasure. Everyone does have their own half, you just have to find it.

With acceptance comes change.

There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.

Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.

I’m praying for a misdemeanor

In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.

I have no ambitions to be a pop star.

When I was growing up, there were a lot more arts in the public schools. Politically, America has screwed up on that.

I'm not a prophet of doom, I'm a prophet of love. But love will bid a warning doom to the children who play on the freeway. We need to wake up.

if we don't always understand animals, they always understand us.