Robyn Quotes

My father, who suffered from hardening of the arteries, was diagnosed as having that tragic thief of the mind, Alzheimer's.

If everything really does get better, the way everyone claims, then happiness should be graphable. But that's crap, because better isn't quantifiable.

And I realized that there's a big difference between deciding to leave and knowing where to go.

I wondered what things what things became when you no longer needed them, and I wondered what the future would hold once we'd gotten past our personal tragedies and proven them ultimately survivable.

I try to be genuine. I try to be real. It's such a subjective thing, but I try to convey an emotion.

Even if I'm sad, dancing is a way to let stuff out.

You cant censor peoples dreams.

When I'm in the studio, I become a total nerd.

History is filled with fictional people.

Commercial music is music that a lot of people connect to at the same time, but that doesn't mean it has to be something shallow or without personality.

Activists are cultural artists. They envision a world that does not yet exist, and then take action to create that world.'

The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you choose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many.

People say, "I can't take you seriously because you're so young." But I think when you're young, what you feel is more pure.

I don't think of myself as just a pop artist, but someone who knows she has a bigger meaning. I'm not doing this for myself; I'm doing this because it's my destiny.

Having access to mobile phones and being able to document your own life brings people together.

Maybe I bring people into that pop world who don't usually find themselves there because there's not enough stuff for them to get excited about otherwise.

When we awaken to the beauty of nature, the doors to our true self are opened up wide, for divine healing on all levels.

[In making music] it's nice to not have a goal, to not have a set format. It's very liberating to just get out of your comfort zone and be in a new space.

The marketing is just as important as the music, almost.

I always felt like I could combine good pop songs that are easy for people to like with a real person and a real mind and integrity.

The music industry is such a huge machine. There are still a lot of good people in it, but the character of the industry and the culture of the industry is very fast.

If there's anyone out there who has taken extreme to a new level, its Joe De Sena - in adventure racing, in business, and ultimately in the business of adventure! Spartan Up! is must-read.

It's no good to lose touch with people who mean a lot.

Ignorance might be bliss, but it's irresponsible and dangerous too.

I'm as interested in the families and communities that surround our soldiers.

I can't find a person without some link to the armed forces!

That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world.

Imagine how dull life would be if variables assessed for admission to a graduate program really did predict who would succeed and who would fall. Life would be intolerable - no hope, no challenge

As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end.

Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.

If you miss someone too much you turn into them... though it doesn't seem to work for the Christian Church.

Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign.

People from the past always seem to have much more time to create beautiful, intricate, delicate things that often reach the future in a kind of curled-up, capsized state.

Coming out's the hardest part, when you're Queen Elvis.

Comedy is what happens when you cross the dateline from the unbearable. Things become so unbearable they become a joke.

When you think about great teams, The Beatles and the Pythons immediately spring to mind. The Pythons were as much a part of their time as The Beatles.

Superman, Superman, crunchy little Superman. Found you in a Cornflakes box.

Production is something Ive never come to terms with.

After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.

I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.

People in the future look back on primitive machinery or technology or painting, and in some ways, it always seems amazingly intricate and finely wrought.

I would be quite happy never to play any of my better-known songs again. But unless you're Dylan, you can't afford to completely disregard what your audience wants.

I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.

If you do things out of time you're weird.

Most comedians I know are quite serious, anxious people who find life rather difficult. As a consequence, they make people laugh.

I'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either.

Let there be more darkness

The band is like a vintage car. You take it out to go for a spin for a couple miles, but you wouldn't drive across the country.

Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.