Roisin Murphy Quotes

Once you free your mind about a concept of music and harmony being correct, you can do whatever you want.

I'm not in a certain type of genre, and I can't be categorized or pigeonholed. That leaves a wide range of what I can do for myself, for other people, and with other people.

I don't have one role that I'm particularly fond of doing, and I don't really look for it to differ all the time, but I will try anything and do anything. If it's a role I connect with, I'll go for it, no matter what's involved.

We can be whatever we want to be. We can be a country band if we need to be. We can be a rock band if we need to be.

I'm not worried about making a certain type of music or sticking to one type of music.

I don't put myself in any box or say that I can't work on any kind of music. I'm not just a producer that only makes urban music.

We wanted to write songs that we really like that incorporate everything. It seems a lot of bands want to stick with one thing. We didn't want to be scared to do anything that we wanted to do. We didn't want anything to hold us back. We wanted no boundaries.

Jazz is an octopus. It will take whatever it can use and it will work with it.

I think that if you're doing a new musical, you want to have the opportunity to experiment and try things without the whole city of critics looking over your shoulder.

The good thing about acting is that it always keeps you on your toes... It's not like any other job where you can go in and do the same thing as yesterday.

It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field.

I don't want to pigeonhole myself in one character or genre. I want to challenge myself as much as I can.

Every form has its merits. And I like to work in a lot of different forms.

Music needs room to breathe.

It's always nice to be able to play different things.

The good thing about songwriting is you don't have to delineate between what's true and what's fiction; records aren't put on the shelf that way. Books are, movies are, but records aren't.

The radio has so many rules, and songs don't. You don't necessarily write to a rule book unless you're, like, just doing it professionally, which has never been my thing.

I never write with constraints, which I don't know if it is a good thing or a bad thing.

I don't want to be stuck to any specific genre.

I always play so many different styles that I don't think anything I do surprises anyone.

Some people would look at a backing track as something that would confine you, but it really frees us up. It's nice not to be strapped down to a certain spot when you're trying to put on a show.

I never had a boundary as an actor and I am open to interesting scripts.

We're lucky to have such great fans that have stood by us, let us be us and try new things.

I've got a comfortable home for my music where I can put out whatever the hell I want, and I feel like the slate is really clean, and I can get away with anything. It's a nice, free feeling.

What I love about working with Diplo is that it feels very free and fluid - we can work on a song apart from each other or in the studio, and it's always, 'Let's brainstorm, here are new ideas.' I like that kind of workflow, where it's constantly moving.