Robyn

“When you become famous super young, you learn how to behave by the rules because you're the one that has to take the stress. But that also creates a barrier that I really didn't want.”

“I don't know much about making films or TV programs, but what's cool about being in the studio is that you have more time.”

“'Honey' was the first song I wrote where I was really enjoying myself again after questioning the idea of being an artist.”

“When you're 17 and you have an idea, people don't really listen to you. I came out of an environment where my parents were always pushing me to do what I wanted and be creative, and I was not used to the industry's way of thinking.”

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

“Club music taught me so much about myself: having patience or appreciating a different type of way of taking in life. That, to me, is like what 'Off the Wall' is. Or 'I Feel Love' or 'Rock Your Baby' with George McCrae.”

“Hearing is a subjective experience, but I never really understood that it's the same with seeing as well. I always thought that everything we see is the same for everyone. But having these more psychedelic experiences of being really, really sad made me realize how brittle reality can be.”

“I seriously feel like Bowie was an astronaut who went into space and experienced things and brought back these... treasures.”

“Everyone deals with sadness and lack of love when they're kids, and all this abandonment. Most people do. Hopefully you want to learn something new, and you want to move on to this other place, and I think, for me, it was like, I really didn't know how to calm myself down.”

“When I say dance music, it's anything that makes me want to dance. It could be Timbaland and Missy Elliott, but it could also be disco music and samba music: It's not relying on melody in the same way; it's more about rhythm.”

“To me, dance music is a lot of space - to listen to other things than melodies. I think club music and dance music really require a different way of listening.”

“Everyone's talking about how no one is buying records any more, but to me it's quite logical. In the 1990s, music was so hardcore-marketed to a certain group of people that I think a lot of kids felt taken advantage of.”

“Filming costs so much money, so it's such a nerve-racking process, whereas being in a studio is quite cheap compared to that, so you have more time to work on things until you feel good about them. That makes it easier to explain a certain feeling and be in a vulnerable place while making sure it does what you want it to do.”

“Between 2014 and 2016, I was just, like, extremely sad. Like, really, really just not able to be in the spotlight.”

“I don't want to have that thing where I make an album and then I'm super-constantly present in everyone's life for three years, and then gone for the next three.”

“I just want to have a normal life, like everyone else, you know?”

“It wasn't easy for me to socialize with other kids when I got back from touring. I felt different. Like we all do, but I didn't feel like I got all the codes. I was a little awkward.”

“When you're listening to club music, there's no reward. The reward isn't, 'Oh, here's the chorus, here's the lyric that makes sense.' You have to enjoy what it is. You have to enjoy that there's no conclusion.”

“I listen to music very intensely as well: When I listen to an artist I really love, I feel like I know them. I feel like I understand what they're thinking about, even though I've never met them or talked to them.”

“Being onstage and communicating with an audience was part of my life since I was very little, but I was never pushed into singing.”