Song Quotes by Roisin Murphy

When I had my first child, I went back to Ireland to live with my mother. So, a typical day there was me being…

— Roisin Murphy

My music's like waiting for a bus. You wait a long time for one, then a whole heap of them come along.

— Roisin Murphy

You can't get a better education in what it is to write songs until you listen to American soul music.

— Roisin Murphy

I always try to lace my work with just a teensy-weensy bit of humour. It's rather like putting a sprig of feathery stuff in…

— Roisin Murphy

My da used to sing 'Take Her Up to Monto' to me when we were walking down the street - he still does, actually…

— Roisin Murphy

I have a little antennae, and even when I'm trying not to be, I'm connected with the bloody zeitgeist.

— Roisin Murphy

The reason why I'm not a pop star is I would have hated it. I'll stick to being an artist. I'm not trying not…

— Roisin Murphy

I thought I would be a visual artist when I was growing up, so I'm always up for a bit of experimentation.

— Roisin Murphy

The day I turned 16, I moved into my own flat. My parents had just broken up, and I didn't want to go back…

— Roisin Murphy

I work extremely hard, but I love every minute of it. Although I couldn't work as hard if I felt there was a ceiling…

— Roisin Murphy

I never thought that was even possible, to have your friends working with you. In the music, yes, in the creative side, yes, but…

— Roisin Murphy

When you're a kid, right, and you're surrounded by all these other kids, and let's say they don't have the same interests or the…

— Roisin Murphy

That's the good thing about pop. You can do whatever you like... it's a bendable medium.

— Roisin Murphy

With Moloko, we tried to be the opposite of what was out there at the time. I like to be different. In the mid-Nineties,…

— Roisin Murphy

I'm not someone to sit on her laurels.

— Roisin Murphy