Robyn Quotes

Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.

With most of the songs and music that I've composed, irrespective of the myriad videos made, I was always careful not to overly define the experience, leaving room for people to internalize things for themselves, making their experience more integral.

I only record songs that touch me in some way, ones that I can relate to.

Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.

I thought all good art is you doing exactly what you want to see. I didn't realise that's not even what I really like about art. Bands I liked weren't doing just what they want to do: they were finding their common ground with them and me.

I think my music is a way of communicating very directly with people and with people's emotions. I try to make music that doesn't need layers of complexity or obfuscation to speak to people.

If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.

When I listen to a song, I don't say, 'Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.' I'm thinking, 'That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.'

So much of listening to lyrically driven music is projecting your own feelings and experiences into the music.

If the picture speaks to me, if it tells me something about myself, then I want it. Then I have to have it.

The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.

People relate to songs so differently. No matter what it's about in reality, people create their own meaning behind it and connect with it on their own terms.

It's a unique thing, and it's probably the thing I love most about songs and music - their ability to connect in a human way.

I make music for people to relate to and to connect with me. I want to tap into different emotions.

People should listen to my music if they just want to know me better.

Hopefully when you listen to a song, you can say, 'That's me,' or 'That's someone I know' - you relate to it in a way that's cathartic.

I've talked with friends about this: when you write about yourself, that's what people connect to. When you write a sermon or a lesson, that may not reach people. I've learned a lot from people who have been writing about themselves.

I can't say what people use the experience of listening to songs for, but I would never tell somebody what it is supposed to mean. That defeats the purpose of making it. Hopefully, whoever connects with it connects with it in their own way, and it can mean whatever it is supposed to mean to them.

I make art primarily for myself and to show my friends, so I guess it's important to make art that they can connect to.

All my songs mean something to me.

I want to relate. I don't want to just rap and go to the next album.

It's super dope when you connect with something personally.

People often reach out and comment on how they relate to my lyrics, which makes me feel very warm inside.

For me, the value of music is the value you extract from it.