I didn’t mind being in school. But I was usually uninspired and always late. I did what I had to, but not more. Robyn Read Quote
I love telling stories, but I also am more aware now of how complex reality is and how difficult it is to really explain what happened or how I felt. Maybe that sometimes makes me a little bit vague, because I don’t want to really put my finger on anything or set it in stone. Robyn Read Quote
Everyone’s talking about how no one is buying records any more, but to me it’s quite logical. In the 1990s, music was so hardcore-marketed to a certain group of people that I think a lot of kids felt taken advantage of. Robyn Read Quote
Being onstage and communicating with an audience was part of my life since I was very little, but I was never pushed into singing. My parents were so uninterested in me making music. Robyn Read Quote
Hearing is a subjective experience, but I never really understood that it’s the same with seeing as well. I always thought that everything we see is the same for everyone. But having these more psychedelic experiences of being really, really sad made me realize how brittle reality can be. Robyn Read Quote
Club music taught me so much about myself: having patience or appreciating a different type of way of taking in life. That, to me, is like what ‘Off the Wall’ is. Or ‘I Feel Love’ or ‘Rock Your Baby’ with George McCrae. Robyn Read Quote
I think that girls are always expected to have opinions about each other, and maybe I don’t have an opinion about some things, you know? Robyn Read Quote
I don’t want to have that thing where I make an album and then I’m super-constantly present in everyone’s life for three years, and then gone for the next three. Robyn Read Quote
When you become famous super young, you learn how to behave by the rules because you’re the one that has to take the stress. But that also creates a barrier that I really didn’t want. Robyn Read Quote
