47 Quotes by Alison Goldfrapp

But what's great about working with Will is that I was so bored of working with people who seemed to be much more interested in what was cool or fashionable. Will is very open-minded and even though he's classically trained, he's the only person I've ever met that I feel I can relate to musically. He understands how I think about music and vice-versa.

I hated my teachers because I knew they didn't care, and I knew they had no control over me, so I hated them even more.

I think it's a bit of a myth that if you can read music you can write music. It doesn't work like that.

I thought what everyone thinks when they first meet Will,

I was clear that I wanted to do music and I wanted to write songs. But I wasn't clear about how I was going to make that happen. I wrote loads of songs but didn't want to show them to anyone.

I think I heard it once on Top Of The Pops and thought it was very bland,

Saying that you've got acoustic instruments and that's traditional and so people will think it's more intimate, that will always be the case. It's a more intimate sound, so it's going to sound more direct whatever you're singing about.

You don't get bored making an album.

I think making an album is a difficult thing.