Alison Goldfrapp

“I'm not very good at cooking, and I'm away all the time, and I like transient living. I get really itchy feet if I stay in one place.”

“You've got to go with what feels instinctive and true to your heart, and filter out all of the other stuff.”

“I once got my stiletto caught in my horse's tail on stage and went flying into the audience. It was a mental gig, so I think the crowd thought it was part of the show.”

“I carry my own food around on tour; I permanently have carrier bags full of cereal and bananas.”

“I love entering the bowels of the cinema and immersing myself in another world.”

“I live on the edge of Bath. It's really lovely, but its very loveliness freaks me out a bit. It's peaceful, a great antidote to the craziness of being on tour, but sometimes I feel as though I've retired.”

“No one ever recognises me. Everyone says, 'You don't look like your pictures.'”

“I think my cat is adorable, and I probably give it too much fresh chicken. Maybe if I had a child, I'd be giving the chicken to the child.”

“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 love escaping into film, because everyday life I find quite troublesome. So any excuse to go into a cinema and say goodbye to the world for a couple of hours, or in a book or whatever, is great.”

“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 a lot of singers are shy people. I suppose singing on stage is not like talking; you are not as exposed.”

“Humans have always used animals to depict ideas about themselves: ideas about their status, about their position in life and society and the world.”

“I think that there are many aspects to the relationship between humans and animals. But briefly, humans appear to have always been fascinated by them from the time of cave paintings and before.”

“My dad used to ignore me when I was a kid. He couldn't stand my voice, so he just used to ignore me, and then he'd impersonate me.”

“I had this thing about not giving too much of myself away, so I thought, if I sang lyrics, that's giving too much away. You know, I really didn't want to give myself away.”

“I have a cat. When I was younger, I had a guinea pig.”

“There's not that much English folk music that is really that appealing.”

“Good dreams are better than films or books.”