This question annoys me (laughs) – it is really complicated. It is complicated because I actually spend my time trying not to define it, to avoid having walls around me. When you define something, you actually build walls; when you create, you constantly try to push boundaries… But, yeah, I think that for a lot of people my music sounds like pop, indie, electro-rock. In this popish category.

I don't know; I listen to so much music – from unbearable electro, to pop music to hip pop or super rock songs. I am so curious about music that my influences crossover lots of styles, and it eludes me.

This is something that has always been following me. I mean when I was eleven, I wasn't asking myself to many questions. I knew exactly what I wanted to do: music. Then you end up being 20, and you don't want to struggle – I mean I didn't want to, so I worked. Is there any trigger? I guess I was just bored with my job, so I tried.

Definitely! I didn't want to end up struggling in the metro or begging money to my parents. I'm rather an independent person, so I don't want to waist my time running around after money. I didn't want to follow this ‘drop-out-artist-creative’ career path. It's actually society that tells you it is complicated to become artist.

This afternoon I went for a two hour walk – music in the mug. I have met people, the light was great, there were some contexts and so many ideas came to me. I felt a lot of things – like everybody actually, when you take a walk somewhere and it's beautiful and you get inspired. And when music goes along with that, suddenly you dream – you almost bump into your own ghost. Someone who could have been you fifteen years ago; you see yourself as a kid with your parents, or with an ex… I don't know, I imagine lots of things, and so many emotions rise up! That's what I want to transpose.

It is true the videoclip evokes that: I leave, no but I stay, and then I leave again… This is just a metaphor. I don't speak about love in my album. Stay relates to that one time I tried to leave Los Angeles.

Yeah, this is what I expressed here. It broke my heart to leave Los Angeles. And, yeah, it became a cliché, a little bit ironic and off the wall because I left, I went back, I left, I went back… I've returned to Los Angeles maybe a thousand times, and I never really leave it. So it's this kind of joke: “Farewell, I leave for ever” and I go back there a month later.

My roots are Spanish – so first of all there is an atmosphere, a Mediterranean atmosphere that is familiar. People are kind, they are curious, they want to share. This town respects you, not like London or Paris that grab you, clearly. It is a city that lets me breathe, gives me some space. Besides, there are so much clichés in LA that the notion disappears; clichés from all over the world! It is a city that inspires me, there is no barrier. I have the impression you can walk around with a poop on your head and this can become interesting. That's why I find it cool.

I write when I'm happy, I do not write when I'm sad. Actually, when you create something, whatever it is music or a painting, it is a true introspection over an emotion. Then you glorify this emotion, so you work on it; you spend time with this sensation. I don't want to spend time with a sensation that hurts me. For some people, digging the spleen is what’s interesting, and they take pleasure in doing so. I love nostalgia, I like feeling sad sometimes, but I choose to live happy.

I like feeling good in everything I do, I think this is just a point of view. Considering a rainy day as something sad is just a point of view. I believe you can extract happy things from every situation.

This album speaks more about real experiences, about realities. Run is the beginning of an artistic life. I just wanted to express what was happening in my mug, and not in reality – so I was in my fantasies, totally. You know, earlier, I was walking around and so many things came into my mind – I don't know why this is how I work: all these emotions, I put them in a box that I kindly place aside, then I give myself some time to open it and transpose them. Capitol Vision narrates two or three years on tour – we did almost 200 gigs. We went everywhere, we met so many people, it's crazy! So this album came naturally – it would have been snob to not speak about what I've experienced. It is not there to express spleen, or torture or something negative. I want to express something immediate – this is how I am in everyday life. 

It’s really easy. This is a wink to all the labels, marketing and so on: I don't want to satisfy a request. I don't want to make a second album that will reassure fans or labels. This is not how I work – if tomorrow I do this, I'll stop doing music. The ultimate luxury is doing what I'm doing now: I do what I want to do. No one is telling me “you should sing like this or that…” No.

I consider there are different steps: my artistic environment is detached from medias. I want to be detached, so I've found a solution: I work instantly, I never spend too much time on a track. It works or not. If not, it means I'm intellectualizing the track, so I'll start asking myself: “Maybe I should do it like that to…” No one bothers me. Everything works instinctively. Anyway, I do pop: pop is a track, it’s a song, so you have to understand it immediately. So no marketing story.

I will say California. It is a bit cliché what I'm saying, but Los Angeles set the tone. When I am in LA, I listen to lot of hip pop. That's the thing – what I love is actually being in a car and listen to hip hop, very loud! And I love going to hard rock gigs. There is one album I listen to over and over – Kanye West's Life of Pablo. I can not get enough. So I guess Capitol Vision gets a pop rock tendency. But it has actually been mixed by a hip hop producer from LA, Jaycen Joshua. I wanted someone from hip hop, not rock or pop. It was quite hard to work with him, because he works with A$AP Rocky, with Jay-Z – big names! But the collaboration went so smoothly: he liked the music, and he actually made my mix while working on A$AP Rocky. He did both albums at the same time. So I guess the album borrows from this part of the world.

Like a child. We got Printemps de Bourges, but also Les Vielles Charrues – the main stage – the Main Square festival. I can't wait for that. I love playing during summer on big festivals; what I love most is when we finish the gig, and I just walk around backstages, just to see the artists. I can sit for hours, just watching artists around. I did it during Solidays last year. I was alone for hours, with a beer, sitting and watching – I was like a kid.