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

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.

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

Always love more than they deserve.

It is not opposition but indifference which separates men.

San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful.

As a human being, I'm work in process.

The voice of life in me cannot reach the ear of life in you; but let us talk that we may not feel lonely.

Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game.

My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.

If it's worth listening to, it's worth questioning until you understand it.

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'

Made poetry a mere mechanic art.