Love & Passion Quote by Keren Ann

The sentence performs a neat balancing act: it flirts with the romance of the cosmopolitan artist while quietly insisting on the unglamorous logistics that make that romance possible. Keren Ann name-checks two cities that function as cultural shorthand Paris for craft, mood, and lineage; New York for velocity, opportunity, and permanent motion. But she immediately downgrades the fantasy with the most domestic detail imaginable: a bed.

That final clause is the tell. It reframes “home” not as flag or identity but as infrastructure. For touring musicians, belonging is often a spreadsheet: where the studio is, where the collaborators are, where you can sleep without negotiating a hotel checkout time. Paris is “a base” and “recording,” language of work and production. New York is “home…when I’m in the U.S.,” a conditional home, defined less by sentiment than by a reliable landing pad. The phrasing acknowledges how transnational creative life can hollow out traditional ideas of rootedness without turning it into melodrama.

There’s also a savvy self-presentation here. She signals seriousness (recording, base) while dodging the clichéd “I’m a citizen of the world” pose. The bed line gives her credibility: she’s not performing jet-set mystique; she’s describing the quiet need for repetition, privacy, and a place where your body can stop being in transit. In a culture that fetishizes constant movement, the quote’s power is its refusal to pretend that mobility doesn’t come with exhaustion.