English is really free for me; there’s no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it’s just I live in Paris, and it’s really a poetic language where you can really play with words. Yael Naim Read Quote
When I’d go to Israel, I felt like a tourist. My social and professional ties had started to dissolve, and it confused me. I didn’t know whether I should stay here in Paris or go back to Israel, or even cut off all my ties with Israel so I could really plant roots here. Or maybe go somewhere else altogether. Yael Naim Read Quote
I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you’re pretentious like that, and you think you’ve planned everything perfectly, it’s then that everything goes in the opposite way. Yael Naim Read Quote
Usually when a song comes to me, I don’t ask a lot of questions; I hear something, and I just let it out in song. It’s like making a salad. Everything I hear, and everything I am, I mix together in a different way in each song. Yael Naim Read Quote
Being from Israel and a Jew is complex already, but with France, there is a freedom and a mix of culture. I have met musicians from all over the world. Yael Naim Read Quote
I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new. Yael Naim Read Quote
In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life. Yael Naim Read Quote
Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people. Yael Naim Read Quote
When I write in Hebrew, I don’t look for sophistication in music; it’s just pure emotion that comes out. Yael Naim Read Quote
