Roisin Murphy
Roisin Murphy

I've got crap teeth, crap hair. I never have facials. I still have hairs in the middle of my eyebrows.

Roisin Murphy
Roisin Murphy

I never said, 'Lady Gaga is a poor imitation of me.' That was a completely made-up quote.

Roisin Murphy
Roisin Murphy

The Church controlled so much in Ireland for so long. I'm not going to get into whether or not religion per se is a bad thing, but my point is the political aspect in Ireland was way out of kilter, and it wasn't right.

Roisin Murphy
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 a mother, with my mum showing me how to do things.

Roisin Murphy
Roisin Murphy

I respect Lady Gaga's work as an artist and as a fellow fashion icon. She is a very talented performer, playing the piano, singing live, and dancing, too.

Roisin Murphy
Roisin Murphy

We were brought up to think we were amazing. Maybe I was too confident, too full of myself. I found school difficult. I'd get followed home by 20 kids throwing stuff at me. The teachers didn't like me, either. We left Ireland for Manchester when I was 12, and I was happy to go.

Roisin Murphy
Roisin Murphy

If I had gone to art college and everybody was being a conceptual artist, I probably would have wanted to be a portrait or landscape painter.

Roisin Murphy
Roisin Murphy

I'm really into architecture, I'm a member of the Brutalist Appreciation Society; I'm a member of the Postmodern Society. I write letters to save buildings.

Roisin Murphy
Roisin Murphy

Being able to express yourself is one of the hardest things in the world.

Roisin Murphy
Roisin Murphy

'Take Her Up to Monto' is a very satirical song. I don't really like people calling it a folk song because it kind of isn't. It's a bit cheeky calling it 'Take Her Up to Monto,' but the whole idea was to be very irreverent.

Roisin Murphy
Roisin Murphy

I didn't spend my childhood trying to be a performer; it was a big surprise to me that this was what I was doing. But it has always felt quite natural to me. I wasn't taught to do what I do; I found out bit by bit.

Roisin Murphy
Roisin Murphy

When I started out, the idea of wearing interesting clothes seemed to contradict the idea of being a serious artist. The first Moloko record, 'Do You Like My Tight Sweater?' was kind of a reaction to all that.

Roisin Murphy
Roisin Murphy

Peggy Guggenheim is a real hero to have done what she did in a man's world, as the art world still is.

Roisin Murphy
Roisin Murphy

Performance was a shock to me. The first time I remember feeling I could do it was during the making of my first video, 'Fun for Me.' I couldn't sleep the night before the shoot, I was so frightened. I had to play a ghost and a piece of merchandise in a shop window, and I had no idea whether I was going to be able to pull it off.

Roisin Murphy
Roisin Murphy

The most healthy way to be creative is to work with what you have and not sit around wishing you had something different.

Roisin Murphy
Roisin Murphy

I was about 10 when I first began to sing. My mother had been away for three weeks, and I learned 'Don't Cry for Me Argentina.' When she came back, I sang it in front of her, my auntie Linda, my father, my uncle Jim, and my grandmother.

Roisin Murphy
Roisin Murphy

It's not nice to be called a nutter, because it dismisses the input I've had into my own destiny over the years.

Roisin Murphy
Roisin Murphy

I've always been attracted to weirdos.

Roisin Murphy
Roisin Murphy

On 'Hairless Toys,' I've tried to create an ambiguous character to go with an ambiguous record. She's anything but rock n' roll - she's so not rock n' roll that, in a twisted way, she's kind of radical. She's like someone from my memory, almost like my mother, and she's lost in some space-time between the 1960s and the late '80s.

Roisin Murphy
Roisin Murphy

I think my whole career has been marked - or marred - by what people presume about me. But even that's fed back into the creativity. I'm saying that I'm about contradiction, that you can't put me into a box.