Roisin Murphy Quotes

I've worked all my life not to be a simpleton.
Lyricism was placed into my head in Ireland.
Me making music happened not even from a desire to make records.
Music has given me a fantastic lifestyle.
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 walking along.
My family are all mad. But I got a lot of strength from them.
My family were wheeler-dealer class. They were their own bosses and very glamorous. We lived in a beautiful, big townhouse in Arklow, in Ireland, that we couldn't afford to heat. My father had a business fitting bar furniture, and my mother is an antiques dealer.
My fashion icons change regularly.
My father ruined me for men. Not many can live up to him.
My music's like waiting for a bus. You wait a long time for one, then a whole heap of them come along.
My uncle was a photographer for 'The Irish Times.'
On 'Hairless Toys,' I've tried to create an ambiguous character to go with an ambiguous record. She's anything but rock n' roll - she's so not rock n' roll that, in a twisted way, she's kind of radical. She's like someone from my memory, almost like my mother, and she's lost in some space-time between the 1960s and the late '80s.
On 'Overpowered,' there was a nostalgia for disco and early house music. But I'm a modernist and futurist as well. I do believe - and this is going to sound really pretentious, I know - that humanity will figure it out, so I'm optimistic about the future.
Once I was embraced by gay culture, I finally started to feel I was fitting in. I was understood by those people in a way I had never predicted or courted.
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.
One of my favourite books of all time is 'The Borstal Boy.'
Originally, I thought of being a photographer and nearly went to art school, but I got a record deal instead.
Peggy Guggenheim is a real hero to have done what she did in a man's world, as the art world still is.
Performance was a shock to me. The first time I remember feeling I could do it was during the making of my first video, 'Fun for Me.' I couldn't sleep the night before the shoot, I was so frightened. I had to play a ghost and a piece of merchandise in a shop window, and I had no idea whether I was going to be able to pull it off.
Someone said to me a long time ago, 'You're a drag queen,' and at the time I was a little like... hello? But then I realized over the years that I actually am.
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05 July, 1973
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