Roisin Murphy Quotes

I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.

I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'

I got a record deal with Sony, and I really just put acting aside. But it's a love.

I often thought that if I had been working with Mark James at American Studios, I would have had a pop hit before I ever moved out of Memphis. But that didn't happen.

Back in 1985, I was working on my third solo album when the band came to me and asked me to produce the next Fleetwood Mac project. At that point, I put aside my solo work - which was half finished - and committed myself for the next seventeen months to producing 'Tango in the Night.'

I feel like I just learned a whole new world when I was studying under Ne-Yo when I was about 17. I was living on Ne-Yo's manager's couch, making three songs a day.

During college, I collaborated with another YouTuber and musician, Shankar Tucker. He told me, 'You can do music on YouTube and it's a viable way to put out your songs' and it worked out.

I've been able to experience so many things since I've had my record deal.

My goal is to make music and be a part of cool projects.

Signing with Fantasy is an absolute dream come true. It's such a blessing to work with a label that truly cares about the soul of the music and to be on the same roster as artists that I've looked up to for as long as I can remember.

I put a song on Soundcloud, and Annie Mac made it record of the week, and a month later, I signed my record deal.

Back in the Nineties, I was in an R&B group. I signed my first record deal when I was 12.

I wanted to be part of pop culture, so I started songwriting, and I got signed to my first record deal.

Definitely, I want to continue doing films and television, but my heart is in music. I've written for most of my life.

I always said, if I got a record deal, I'd want to record the best songs I could, whether I wrote them or not.

When I came in the game, it was just me making beats in Inglewood at YG's house; it wasn't nobody to help me.

I've always had a plan for my music career.

I started playing music around 13 or 14, played jazz in high school, and played other stuff in college. After college, I tried to make it as a musician. I lived in a big squalid house full of dudes outside of Boston. We were all musicians. We built this studio in the basement and played there all hours of the day.

I have been working and composing music since 1986. Over the years, I have seen our music industry go through all kinds of transformation.

Honestly, if acting never worked out, I would have done music.

When I got my first email from a record label, I decided I didn't want to go in with just one song, so I sat down and kept on writing.

I've had so many young girls come up to me after a show and say, 'How do I start putting my music on Bandcamp?' or 'I used to play music, but I don't anymore, and I really want to start writing again.' That's just the most amazing feeling.

I really want to work with Eminem. I know it will never happen, but I would love if he let me do a hook on one of his songs or he featured on one of my songs. It would be incredible. I've just always admired him since I was young.

I have come to Kolkata to make music, but I can't expect one director to give me work all the time.

It doesn't make sense for me to try to be, like, a dance dude who only releases two 12-inches a year and then plays every weekend. Making an album, you get to put out a body of work that shows a lot of different sides of you. And you get to work on it for an intense period of time and promote that album. And then you get to move on.