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 More Quotes by Robyn More Quotes From Robyn People say, "I can't take you seriously because you're so young." But I think when you're young, what you feel is more pure. Robyn people thinking I think I'm always adopting a persona. That's how I look at pop music. I don't feel like I have to be myself. I feel like I have to be true to myself, but I don't have to show an exact picture of who I am. Robyn i-am myself look music The music industry used to be able to control a single dance on the very smallest level of when people are supposed to hear it, and when they're supposed to start liking it, and when they're supposed to start buying it. And that's trashed, you know, that big machine that takes control and works albums for a long period. Robyn you music dance people Club culture is always going to be a reflection of youth culture, but I think we're maybe moving into a time when the club is a place where older people can go, too. And it's a place people go to connect to themselves, it's not always about the party. It's also about letting off steam and expressing yourself and connecting to other people. Robyn yourself time culture people Being onstage and communicating with an audience was part of my life since I was very little, but I was never pushed into singing. My parents were so uninterested in me making music. Robyn my-life me music life 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. Robyn me sad experience reality I think that girls are always expected to have opinions about each other, and maybe I don't have an opinion about some things, you know? Robyn think know you opinion My friends who are not from Sweden tell me that I'm more reserved or maybe more ... I guess the opposite of what a Latin American would be. Maybe because Scandinavians are more careful with their words and I guess it takes a lot to become a friend of a Swede. Robyn words friend me friends I didn't mind being in school. But I was usually uninspired and always late. I did what I had to, but not more. Robyn always late mind school 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. Robyn present three want life 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. Robyn think me music people I just want to have a normal life, like everyone else, you know? Robyn know you want life 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. Robyn me you people thinking Sure the Internet is the future, but what we do on the Internet is still very primal. Robyn sure still future internet 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. Robyn feel back me easy 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. Robyn myself me you love 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. Robyn reward you enjoy music 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. Robyn myself music love life I seriously feel like Bowie was an astronaut who went into space and experienced things and brought back these... treasures. Robyn seriously feel back space 'Honey' was the first song I wrote where I was really enjoying myself again after questioning the idea of being an artist. Robyn myself artist song honey
