“I like to sing covers of songs that are at the extreme ends from what ...” — Yael Naim Quote

I like to sing covers of songs that are at the extreme ends from what I usually listen to.

Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.

When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

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.

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.

I find it strange that actors are on the covers of magazines.

When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.

We play some of my stuff and we play some Beatle covers.

I've never really figured out why the media covers the media, you know?

Before we really started writing our own songs in the James Gang, we'd play covers, and then, in the middle of them, we'd go for a jam for four or five minutes. At some point, we had six or seven of those sections, and we didn't need to cover other people's songs anymore.