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" A lot of young musicians in Stockholm are about keeping tradition alive and moving it forward at the same time. "

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" 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. "

" I love Robyn, not just because we've worked together. I mean, that's why we've worked together - because I love her. "

" I've never really thought of my real life - you know, the one I wake up to and fall asleep to at night - as being a pop star's life. "

" 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. "

" When me and my brother Eagle-Eye were kids, life was about hitting the road, getting on the bus. We loved it. "

" I was a punk when I was 15 - I was definitely into it in a big way and loved it - but I came to London when punk was maybe where you'd say punk is dead. "

" I'm allergic to doing the obvious thing. "

" I've never been very good at fitting into boxes. "

" Who needs a handbag? I put my money in my bra. "

" You come to these thresholds in your life where you need to remember why you do what you do, to reconnect with yourself. When I look back at something like 'Raw Like Sushi,' I think I was very much in the right place at the right time. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I found out I was pregnant, my mother said, 'Don't separate your life, the life that you're going to make with this child, from the things that you are and what you want to do.' "

" 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. "

" The race is your face. Obviously, I come from a mixed background. Who I am and how I look and being black. "

" To me, a song is a song when you can sit in a room and just sing it from end to end. "

" There's been a lot of coming home in the early mornings after funny nights out, having bizarre sandwiches in bed. "

" 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. "

" My kids love Ibiza and we feel committed to it because we keep coming back to the same area. People recognise us in shops now and we have a social life here. We cook at home and have friends around. "

" When I was going to school, I just wanted to be like everybody else. I would pull at my hair to try and get it to lie straight. America was where I would consume and absorb black culture, buy Ultra Sheen and watch 'Soul Train,' but I still had that weird in-between thing. "

" My daughters are my Picassos. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I am not super-ambitious. I am not a classically amazing singer or anything. "

" I'm a bit of a rebel, and I always will be. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you want to make God happy, tell him your plans. "