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. Robyn More Quotes by Robyn More Quotes From Robyn People think plus-size models don’t exercise – we do! But it’s about health, not forcing my body to be something it’s not meant to be. Robyn exercisepeoplethinking The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many. Jokes could be grandly miscalculated, or stories deemed boring, and I'd learned early on that my sense of humor and ideas about what sorts of things were fascinating didn't exactly overlap with my friends. Robyn safemeanideas You have to invest something [in your work]. If you don't risk something that really matters to you - like your integrity, or your pride, or your time, or your security, or your reputation - if you don't risk yourself, you can hear it right away. Robyn riskprideintegrity Prince is king to me. As this half-naked, short black guy who looked like a girl in the 70s and 80s, he was talking about women in a way that was very unusual because he didn't objectify them. Robyn girlkingstalking Technology has a lot to do with how the world is developing at the moment because there are very raw and pure and primal emotions that people are communicating to each other over the Internet. Robyn technologypeopleworld The funny thing about gold is how quickly it can tarnish. Robyn funny-thingsgold When I started making music, I made music in a very commercial space and I didn't have room to really explore things on my own terms. It took me awhile to create a little bubble where I could explore other things, and new things. When I did that, my tools were songwriting and arranging. Robyn spacetoolslittles [In making music] it's nice to not have a goal, to not have a set format. It's very liberating to just get out of your comfort zone and be in a new space. Robyn nicespacegoal I was speechless. Rare for me, but if anyone was capable of shocking me to silence, it was my mother. Robyn speechlesssilencemother Sometimes I write songs that just come out in a pop format because I grew up on melody and these amazing artists during the 80s. It's my tradition and it's something that I can't really control. Robyn artistwritingsong Oscar Wilde once said that to live is the rarest thing in the world, because most people just exist, and that's all. I don't know if he's right, but I do know that I spend a long time existing, and now, I intend to live. Robyn longpeopleworld I don't think of myself as just a pop artist, but someone who knows she has a bigger meaning. I'm not doing this for myself; I'm doing this because it's my destiny. Robyn destinyartistthinking It was about being able to dance like Cassidy did, as though no one was watching, as though the moment was infinite enough without needing to document its existence. Robyn infiniteablemoments Sometimes I think that everyone has a tragedy waiting for them, that the people buying milk in their pajamas or picking their noses at stoplights could be only moments away from disaster. That everyone's life, no matter how unremarkable, has a moment when it will become extraordinary - a single encounter after which everything that really matters will happen. Robyn waitingpeoplethinking The marketing is just as important as the music, almost. Robyn marketingimportant Commercial music is music that a lot of people connect to at the same time, but that doesn't mean it has to be something shallow or without personality. Robyn commercial-musicmeanpeople If everything really does get better, the way everyone claims, then happiness should be graphable. But that's crap, because better isn't quantifiable. Robyn get-betterdoeway And I realized that there's a big difference between deciding to leave and knowing where to go. Robyn differencesbigsknowing So don't stop moving forward. For a while, you may feel as though you're taking two steps forward, one step back. And there may be some personal heartache along the way. But when you look your little ones in the eye, you will find your voice and take a stand for them. We are their voices. And we must have the courage to stand up for them, whatever the odds or however powerful the opposition might be. Robyn powerfuleyemoving My parents had an independent theater company here in Sweden during the 1980s, so I was raised watching my parents create independently, having a lot of fun and just doing what they wanted to do. I think that idea of independence as an artist was something I was always used to. And then I entered the industry from a very commercial perspective, and things were very different then from what I grew up with. Robyn independentartistfun
