Roisin Murphy Quotes

I think I've always had to pick and choose whatever I want to work on. If I'm not happy with what I'm doing, it's probably not going to end up that interesting.

It feels good to create, and to actually have input, and your choices are your choices.

I needed to be more self-determining, and the most self-determining thing you can do in comedy is stand-up.

What I found out is, I need complete autonomy. I can't have nobody looking over my shoulder saying I can't say this or that.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

I'm still enjoying discovering more designers and getting to play dress-up in a bigger way than I ever have before.

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative.

If I'm creating something for myself, then I want to have fun.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

It's not that I don't want to become famous or that I'm obsessed by my work as an actress, but it's all about not limiting myself, such as putting myself in a little jail that I can escape from.

There's a lot of creative freedom. Acting is a whole boatload of fun, but I prefer to do it on my own terms.

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.

I'm very much a girl that likes to have options. That's the way I am with fashion, and that's the way I am with my life.

I don't want to look exactly the same in everything I do. And if I'm not identifiable, then that can be a blessing or a curse. But I'm fine with it. Because at the end of the day, I'm still working, and I'm enjoying what I do.

Stand-up is the only thing I have complete control over. There's something to be said for that.

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

My favorite thing is being able to follow my inspiration, and the freedom of being a writer is hard to beat.

Creativity and innovation always builds on the past. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it. Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past. Ours is less and less a free society.

I truly believe that to actually be free and to be in place you can create from, you have to be able to be private.

I'm in control of my musical career, which means more than awards and record sales. And that freedom is exactly what my dad fought for, too.

Nobody wants to feel controlled or treated like a child.

I don't want anyone controlling me.

I want to be free to be any version of me I feel like being. I don't want to be McDonald's that serves the same food every time.