Keren Ann on Her Latest Album Nolita

Who do you think about when you write your music?

Usually, it’s all about love. It comes from the person you love. But then it travels, and it goes to other stories. Old stories. It starts with love or longing, whether it’s a place, or a person, or a detachment, or being overwhelmed. But then it can evolve into something else. Everything memory-related kills me. I’m obsessed. Like Lola in Barry Manilow’s “Copacabana.” Lola lost her love because she lost her youth. Ultimately, so many songs come back to love.

So is Nolita an album of “love songs?”

No. But even if they’re not explicitly about love, they exist because of love. Too much love, not enough love, the overwhelming nature of love.

But I could see that a lot of people would consider “One Day Without” the consummate love song.