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All Quotes by author - Neneh Cherry
" A lot of young musicians in Stockholm are about keeping tradition alive and moving it forward at the same time. "
Musicians
Forward
Moving
" Being a grandmother is one of the least strange things in my life. It makes more sense than a lot of things... like photo shoots! "
Strange
My Life
Life
" Both my parents were working-class and had dreams of making the world a better place. It's pretty powerful, being able to reflect back their beliefs. "
Dreams
Parents
Place
" Everyone in Sweden has great hair and teeth and is clean-cut and organised. "
Teeth
Everyone
Great
" For me, making music is about my whole life. The basics, the components, simple things - family, living, just going to the market and getting new fruit and veg. That's what keeps my blood flowing. "
Family
Simple
Life
" Frank Ocean is our modern-day Marvin Gaye. In our house, we have nothing but respect for him. "
House
Ocean
Nothing
" I admire someone like Beyonce. She has amazing commitment. I needed to accept that I probably did not fit into that forum. Doing that 'The Cherry Thing' record was a big part of finding that place where I belong, where I may shine, but I never doubted it was there. "
Amazing
Commitment
Doing
" I always found very strong images for my songwriting in New York. "
New
Strong
Found
" I am not super-ambitious. I am not a classically amazing singer or anything. "
I Am
Anything
Amazing
" I don't live my life through my kids, nor do I expect them to live theirs through mine. But of course, they're everything. "
My Life
Everything
Expect
" I don't think I would have made 'Blank Project; if I hadn't made 'Cherry Thing.' I think that was a real rebirth in a way, and a remembrance of how I like to make music best, the most. Like being in a more chaotic place, maybe. Like a place of making and being creative where the mistakes can be left in. "
Creative
Music
Think
" I don't think you can cover a song unless you love it and have a relationship with it. With 'Golden Heart' I felt a sense of responsibility. And when we were recording it in the studio, it felt almost dream-like. Something you might hear if you were in Senegal, with someone singing from the mosque in the morning just as the sun's coming up. "
Sun
Morning
Relationship
" I found my place when I moved to London, where I chose to live, making my own tribe who were all from different backgrounds and places. The class thing is very dominant there, but in the cultural cross-fertilization, I felt a sense of belonging. "
Belonging
Place
My Own
" If you want to make God happy, tell him your plans. "
You
Want
Tell
" I have absorbed my life now. I am ready for my music to unfold. I know time flies, but before the end of this year, the album will be out. Even if it kills me. "
Life
My Life
Time
" I haven't lived in Sweden since I was a teenager. We lived in southern Sweden, about two hours north of Copenhagen, where my family's home base has been since 1970. Our parents bought a schoolhouse in preparation for self-sufficient living. They wanted to create a place to do all the things they believed in. "
Preparation
Home
Two
" I like Kelela. I like Twigs. I love the more old school; I hate to say old school, but I love Peaches; I love Peaches, I love Cat Power. And there's constantly new things coming up. But there's something so beautifully powerful - for me being a woman, when there's a woman doing something, it really strikes a chord. "
School
Hate
Love
" I love collard greens and sweet potatoes. But like, traveling, I'm always just looking for that thing where you feel like there's love in the food. Like one of the best things, in Brazil it's feijoada. I was in Tobago in the winter, and I had the best roti I've ever had, with curry goat. "
Best
Winter
Sweet
" I love Robyn, not just because we've worked together. I mean, that's why we've worked together - because I love her. "
Together
Just Because
Love
" I'm 50. And I'm not ever really worried about being trendy. "
Really
Trendy
About
" I'm a bit of a rebel, and I always will be. "
Bit
Rebel
Always
" I'm allergic to doing the obvious thing. "
Allergic
Thing
Obvious
" I'm not an amazingly trained soul singer, so with me it's about feeling and energy and spontaneity - that's a really big part of who I am. "
Singer
Me
I Am
" I'm quite a particular singer, and I need to feel like I can bite into the song, in a way, to make it my own. You want the challenge of the songs having some attitude. "
Challenge
Song
Attitude
" I think I've always been slightly addicted to not repeating myself. When you're doing something the first time around, it's often the best time. I think 'Blank Project' is about carrying on. Its that thing where you're making something because you have to, but you don't know how or why. "
Know
You
Time
" I think I've grown up in a mixed environment, and maybe a lot of the time I haven't really belonged anywhere in the way I've dreamt of belonging to, you know, living on the street and playing to all the kids on the street, growing up together. I suppose 'Raw Like Sushi' was a place where all of those things could come together. "
Think
Place
Together
" I try not to be superstitious, but, you know, we never put any shoes on the table. That's totally against the law in our house. And I always salute when I see one magpie. "
House
Know
Law
" I've always looked to other women for inspiration and kicks. When a woman stands up and does her thing, it never ceases to excite and inspire me. "
Always
Inspire
Me
" I've always worked with my partner, my husband, Cameron, since 'Raw Like Sushi,' and in a way, I feel very free with what I do, but he also has an amazing insight in having intuitions that tend to be right a lot of the time, about where we should go next. "
Amazing
Free
Husband
" I've never been very good at fitting into boxes. "
Fitting
Been
Boxes
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