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All Quotes by author - Alison Goldfrapp
" An album, for me, is not just a commercial product. It's about presenting a world to people, for them to explore and enjoy. How they do that is up to them. "
World
Up
People
" Any abuse of animals is the same as abuse of men, women, or children. "
Men
Abuse
Animals
" Anything is food for starting a song. A song can start with a lyric idea or a melody or just a sound that inspires. "
Starting
Food
Just
" Humans have always used animals to depict ideas about themselves: ideas about their status, about their position in life and society and the world. "
Society
Ideas
Animals
" I carry my own food around on tour; I permanently have carrier bags full of cereal and bananas. "
My Own
Food
Cereal
" I'd like a telescope, but I probably wouldn't look at the stars that often. I'd definitely be looking into people's flats most of the time. "
Like
Time
Stars
" I don't think that just because you go on stage you are an exhibitionist. "
Stage
Go
Just Because
" I find shopping too stressful. I get hot and flustered and irritated and feel sick after I've bought something. "
Sick
Shopping
Hot
" I had this thing about not giving too much of myself away, so I thought, if I sang lyrics, that's giving too much away. You know, I really didn't want to give myself away. "
Giving
Myself
Want
" I have a cat. When I was younger, I had a guinea pig. "
Pig
Cat
Guinea
" I have strange blood sugar levels. I get very odd if I don't eat. I either want to hit someone, cry, or fall asleep. "
Sugar
Cry
Fall
" I live on the edge of Bath. It's really lovely, but its very loveliness freaks me out a bit. It's peaceful, a great antidote to the craziness of being on tour, but sometimes I feel as though I've retired. "
Live
Peaceful
Edge
" I love entering the bowels of the cinema and immersing myself in another world. "
Love
Cinema
I Love
" I love escaping into film, because everyday life I find quite troublesome. So any excuse to go into a cinema and say goodbye to the world for a couple of hours, or in a book or whatever, is great. "
Goodbye
World
Love
" I think a lot of singers are shy people. I suppose singing on stage is not like talking; you are not as exposed. "
Think
You
Singing
" I think it's a bit of a myth that if you can read music you can write music. It doesn't work like that. "
Write
Work
Think
" I think my cat is adorable, and I probably give it too much fresh chicken. Maybe if I had a child, I'd be giving the chicken to the child. "
Think
Child
Too Much
" I think some women try to make you feel you're not all female because you haven't given birth. There are a lot of prejudices. Some women think women who have animals are deeply sad, because what they really want is a child. Mind you, there's probably an element of truth in that. "
Women
Mind
Sad
" I think that there are many aspects to the relationship between humans and animals. But briefly, humans appear to have always been fascinated by them from the time of cave paintings and before. "
Animals
Time
Cave
" I try to read as much as I can - all the time, really. And I absolutely love going to the cinema, especially during the day. "
Time
Cinema
Day
" It's so hard to pick a 'single.' I always want it to be whatever my favorite tune is, but often the record company and the person whose job it is to take it to radio have different ideas. "
Want
Radio
Company
" I was clear that I wanted to do music and I wanted to write songs. But I wasn't clear about how I was going to make that happen. I wrote loads of songs but didn't want to show them to anyone. "
Happen
Write
Going
" My dad used to ignore me when I was a kid. He couldn't stand my voice, so he just used to ignore me, and then he'd impersonate me. "
Ignore
Kid
Me
" There's not that much English folk music that is really that appealing. "
Music
Much
English
" The two have to go hand in hand - the atmosphere and the music. I actually get rather worried if I can't see the music first. There always needs to be a mood, a feeling, a story, even if it is abstract. There's got to be a narrative to guide things before they're even created. "
Always
See
Story
" You've got to go with what feels instinctive and true to your heart, and filter out all of the other stuff. "
True
Got
Go
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