102 Quotes by Roisin Murphy

Unzip my body, take my heart out.

If you were a child and every time your relatives had a few drinks, they’d be running after you with scary faces and big hands to pull you back to sing Don’t Cry For Me Argentina, you wouldn’t like singing either.

Being able to express yourself is one of the hardest things in the world.

I don't like to work with stylists - I find the relationship too intimidating - but I love fashion.

Fashion in the mid-'90s was too easy. Artistic culture was very earnest, so I was flamboyant and dangerous. I wanted to be seen as more than an outline, so I used fashion to say that for me.

That idea of not always being in control of the primitive parts of yourself - the bits that fall in love or the bits that dance or lose the plot or drink too much - and putting that across... that's pop for me. It's playing with all the different colours of the rainbow of life.

I feel more like an artist than a pop star, and I accidentally fell into what I do. Everything was just an experiment.

I love performance, but I'm quite happy making videos as well, and I'm inordinately happy writing songs.

I went to bed on the night of Brexit, of that vote for leaving the E.U., and I said to everyone it will be a 70/30: nobody wants to leave the E.U. I woke up on the bus in Glastonbury, and everybody had their heads in their hands. They could not believe it. I could not believe it.