Roisin Murphy Quotes

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.

Express yourself through your art - whether it’s your drawings in a sketchpad, tattoos on your skin, the shade of your lipstick, or the clothes that you wear.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.

The whole point in developing your own style is to find your own voice.

My personal style is really different from 'Lemonade Mouth.'

I just tried to be an artist in my own metier.

I stick to what I do best, and I think what makes an artist an artist is when they know who they are.

I'm an artist. I'm a musician. I'm not someone you can put in a box.

Music is about self-expression and representing the times, and I think fashion is the same. It took me a long time to find my own style, both in terms of fashion and music.

I think people have come to know that I am not comfortable in a box, you know, and that I love music.

My philosophy through all my work, be it on canvas or on the street, is about pushing boundaries and not going with the flow because everyone else is doing something a certain way.

I think that everyone who does music, and everyone who does art, or everyone who decides at a young age that they're gonna do that, is someone who feels like an outsider. The world is not really set up for that.

I don't really follow fashion exactly, but I've always been very interested in the way that you present yourself as an expression of yourself, so that's my idea of fashion and style from a personal point of view.

Many people say to me, particularly about my dance writing, 'It sounds just like you.' But it sounds just like me after I've made it sound like me.

I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

There's no way to describe what I do. It's just me.

In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing. It makes sense. But I had always admired filmmakers who made movies that didn't sound like them at all.

I don't ever want to seem like I'm trying to command attention through the way I dress - but I have certainly been known to wear everything from a flamboyant suit to something very mellow and classic. I aim to just look and feel confident.

My style is not trendy by any means; my inner artists loves to shine through in my wardrobe.

People should just express themselves and not worry about trends - try to use fashion like a compass, an indicator, examples of things that you can be. It's not to be taken so seriously. It's just clothes.

People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age, but I've never done what everyone says.

Personal style isn't simply an exercise in parroting but rather an exhibition for our own stories - from the gait of our walk to the rhythm of our speech to the manner in which the necktie falls from the knot.

I'm not hip-hop. I'm Tyler.