first record you remember
It's a record of Flameco that my father had. I was four or five years old. It was some gypsies playing the guitar and singing. I loved this record and wanted to hear it over and over again. But I don't remember the name of it.

a song that reminds you of school
Well, there are two different ones. Being 12 years old I remember "Shaft" by Isaac Hayes or "Superfly" by Curtis Mayfield. Both of those remind me of being in 7th grade. Cause I went to school with a lot of black people. I was one the few white kids in school. It was the 70's in New York City and that was my neighbourhood. I went to some kind of alternative school in Manhattan that had a lot of different ages and cultural backgrounds. Later on, it was "5:15" by The Who. All theboys that I knew where totally into The Who, singing "Out of my brain on the train"...

a record you fell in love to
The Bee Gees - Saturday Night Fever! Isn't it embarrassing? But it's true. I actualy fell in love to that one a couple of times... While we were dancing... It stayed popular for a long time. So even after if you fell out of love with the first one there was always someone after that, for the whole year.

your ultimate heartbreak song
A song that really makes me sad? Something like "Good Night & Good Morning" by Hall & Oates. That's a song that always reminds me of a certain person, the man that's now my husband actually. Cause we were together a long time ago and then we broke up. Got bak together and now we're married. So whenever I hear this song it reminds me of him. A song you could use to seduce me would be "The Look Of Love" by Dusty Springfield. Which is really just the sexiest song ever written, I think.

a record that evokes the greatest summer of your life
Let me think about that one... I hope it's not " Saturday Night Fever" again! But then it probably must have been the summer of my very first romance. I'm sorry but it's still the soundtrack to "Saturday Night Fever" unfortunately. "If I Can't Have You" by Yvonne Elliman evokes that very memorable summer of 1977.

first record you bought
The Beatles - Abbey Road. There was a record store down my street and I really don't remember how I got the money, I think it must have been my allowance, that I spent for my very first purchase of my first album. I was nine years old and was really passionate about The Beatles and all their music right about up to the age of 12.

your boozedup anthem
Hm, I don't think I have one. But the song I listen to to get me really going in the morning is something like "Free Me" by The Foo Fighters. That'll get me up. That's better than a cup of coffee. It would probably also work as a drinking song.

a song you wish you wrote yourself
It's gonna sound really weird, but it's: Mary J. Blige - Be Without You. I just think it's a really great song. It says something so simple and she says in her own words. Also, one or two by Amy Winehouse – but not the one about rehab. And maybe also "The Look Of Love" written by Burt Bacharach. That song covers a multitude of situations, really. And also "How Insensitive" by Antonio Carlos Jobim . That's also a beatiful song.

record it took you the longest time to find
Tim Christensen - Honeyburst. He is a Danish artist and he sounds a little bit like Neil Finn. We heard his album once and my whole band went crazy for him, they all were like: "Oh my god, who is this guy?!". My roadie spent like a year trying to find this record. For some reason it was particualary obscure, except for Denmark where he is a big star. He is fairly young, I think he just turned thirty. He did a lot of the album himself with melotron, guitar and some small band and just spent alsmost a year layering up the sounds of it. It's really terrific.

song that reminds your friends of you
Well, one time someone told me that they thought of me whenever they heard the song "Missing" by Everything But The Girl. So, let's say that one eventhough I don't know what the truth is.

best video clip you ever saw
I love the one for Panic! At The Disco's "But It's Better If You Do". And I also like the one for The Killer's "Mr. Brightside". They are very similar videos, very cabaret, very Moulin Rouge kind of things, which I think is pretty great. I also thought that the video for Sinead O'Connor's "Nothing Compares 2 U" is simple and beautiful.

a song you would use as a ring-tone
The theme from "Get Smart". Just the other day we were going: "I wish I had that tatataaa..." It would be really funny! Or some other crazy TV theme.

your sunday morning song
The Velvet Underground - Sunday Morning. It's kinda depressing but still appropriate for the occasion.

best Beatles song
Gosh! It's like being asked which is your favourite dessert if ther's 25 of them! But, how about "Eleanor Rigby"? I think it's a perfect little play. It's like a little movie: The woman, the priest, the ending. It sums it all up.

the perfect anthem for New York
Lou Reed - Walk On The Wild Side. Or "Across 110th Street" by Bobby Womack. Both of those are great New York songs.

the song to be played at your funeral
Something by Leonard Cohen obviously. Cause it should be sad. I'm not one of these people who wants everyone to be cheerful and happy and drink at my funeral. I want them to be sad at least for half an hour and then they can do whatever they want. I think Cohen's got a song called "Priests". And it says: "Who will write love songs for you now that I'm lord at last?". It's a very beautiful song, sung by Judy Collins.