Roisin Murphy

“Peggy Guggenheim is a real hero to have done what she did in a man's world, as the art world still is.”

“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.”

“I think my whole career has been marked - or marred - by what people presume about me. But even that's fed back into the creativity. I'm saying that I'm about contradiction, that you can't p...”

“I've not got any terrible stories of what I had to do to scrabble my way to the top, obviously, because I didn't scrabble my way to the top. I just scrabbled my way to the middle!”

“I work extremely hard, but I love every minute of it. Although I couldn't work as hard if I felt there was a ceiling on anything. I spent £125,000 on four pictures for the sleeves for 'Overp...”

“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 fo...”

“You can't get a better education in what it is to write songs until you listen to American soul music.”

“I don't have a personal stylist, because I don't need one. I just really enjoy meeting designers and picking up clothes.”

“My da used to sing 'Take Her Up to Monto' to me when we were walking down the street - he still does, actually - because it's got a walking tempo, and I still sing it to myself when I'm walk...”

“I've always been attracted to weirdos.”

“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 b...”

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