A biography for Roisin Murphyhasn’t been written yet.
“I feel more like an artist than a pop star, and I accidentally fell into what I do. Everything was just an experiment.”
“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.”
“I'm a situationist when it comes to anything creative, and that stands with the visual part of anything I do as well. I deal with the concrete things I have in front of me, and I think that's a wise way to be.”
“I don't like to work with stylists - I find the relationship too intimidating - but I love fashion.”
“I never said, 'Lady Gaga is a poor imitation of me.' That was a completely made-up quote.”
“Timeless and unclassifiable - that's the goal. My oddness is the pursuit of this above all else.”
“I'm proud that I've even had a career, but 'proud' isn't the first word I'd use. I feel lucky that I moved to Manchester when I was 12 because I don't think I could have done this in Ireland. And I feel lucky that the government took care of me from the age of 16 to when I signed my first record deal at 19.”
“It's not nice to be called a nutter, because it dismisses the input I've had into my own destiny over the years.”
“I have a little antennae, and even when I'm trying not to be, I'm connected with the bloody zeitgeist.”
“Ireland is a great place to be odd.”
“The Church controlled so much in Ireland for so long. I'm not going to get into whether or not religion per se is a bad thing, but my point is the political aspect in Ireland was way out of kilter, and it wasn't right.”
“I just wouldn't enjoy standing there like a paper doll, having someone else stick paper dresses on me. That would be no fun.”
“I became a singer and a songwriter by learning on the spot, so think I always need to be slightly out of my comfort zone when I do something. I've never stopped being experimental because that's how I started.”
“There'll always be a part of me that wants to remain mysterious.”
“One night, my father woke me up because he'd come home with a horse. Two days later, I asked my mother where it was, and she said it had run away. She'd sold it.”
“My fashion icons change regularly.”
“I'm not someone to sit on her laurels.”
“I don't like permanency. I just like to slip and slide, and in identity, I think that's a very feminine artist's point of view.”
“A year before I met Mark Brydon - he was the one I used to make all the music with in Moloko - I was living in Sheffield with a guy who was studying architecture. I used to go to his college and crash the lectures there. I had enrolled to do a fine art course, but then I met Mark, and we signed a record deal instead.”
“I'm really into architecture, I'm a member of the Brutalist Appreciation Society; I'm a member of the Postmodern Society. I write letters to save buildings.”