Roisin Murphy

I really do prioritise humour in people. It's a sign of intelligence. One of the most important things I heard that moulded me was Derek and Clive. That sense of release when I heard them for the first time, crying and laughing, was akin to seeing Sonic Youth for the first time.

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I was given this beautiful coffee table book of Soviet architecture for my birthday. It has a lot of holiday camps, swimming pools, theatres, and buildings that were built for leisure activities. Incredible architecture in the most obscure places. It's a little bit sad, because a lot of it has been left to fall apart.

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There's a great deal of tension between so many kind of distinctive and restrictive female archetypes and images in the world. When you play with the archetypes, you get free.

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Timeless and unclassifiable - that's the goal. My oddness is the pursuit of this above all else.

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I love Andrew Weatherall; he's so real and uncompromising and a sweetheart.

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I work with men a lot, and there's a yin and a yang that goes on when you work one guy and one girl. And there's things that I bring that they don't bring and things they bring and I don't bring.

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I have a little antennae, and even when I'm trying not to be, I'm connected with the bloody zeitgeist.

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Quotes by Roisin Murphy