Vagabon

"it’s completely euphoric…a reaction to what I was experiencing at the time, not a document of it."

"I have fresh roses on my rider, it makes my dressing rooms feel a bit more like home"

"It’s because things were dark that this record is so full of life and energy."

"I didn’t feel like being introspective. I just wanted to have fun."

"I feel that autonomy as an artist is very important and I have to be able to do what makes me feel excited. If I do not feel it, nobody will. So I gladly took the risk and made this album because I can!."

"I moved to the States for the first time when I was nine but I don’t think I fully settled until I was 13. Of course it was not easy but my family and me went through the journey together. Being a child is always hard and moving of country does not make it easier. Especially, when you are into different things because as a kid we are trying to figure ourselves out while simultaneously figuring other people out."

"The city is definitely my home away from home. There is this saying that when you have lived in New York for more than ten years you are a new Yorker – so yeah I feel like I have arrived. It is a magical place. It will beat you up but yet make you feel so inspired and hungry for better."