Roisin Murphy Quotes

I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.

From a place of truth, I think artists or actors have to be real with what they're doing.

Please understand that I make music to express myself, and if you know anything about me, you know that I'm nothing but honest.

My songs are about who I am.

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.

People hear that and say I'm being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthful about what I'm doing and what I'm doing is channeling.

I always write what feels really true and honest and me.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.

I've spent most of my life trying to wear a persona that didn't quite fit and when I started writing books, it was like finally becoming the right person.

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through.

My lyrics come from my experiences growing up in life, trying to find out and express who I am. That's basically it. I'm not trying to be a prophet or anything like that. I'm just reflecting on life.

Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.

I come out of real life.

Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.

I really don't have any secrets. I've never met a photographer whose work I respected that had a secret because the secret lies within each and every one of us.

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

The most personal thing about me is my music. The most honest, pure thing in my whole life.

I feel as though there are things that I'm trying to do - you know, capturing truthfully some aspect of human experience - and I'm trying really hard not to be fake. And in writing, as in life, it's harder than you think.

A film reflects who you are as a building reflects the soul of its architect. I think what you feel and what you think and what you are is what the film is. It's not for me to talk about.

I feel it's much easier to be honest or be myself in songs when I'm playing. That's why I felt, 'You know, I'm going to write the truth.'