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" With Soapkills, we were lucky. We started at a time of transition where things were not ready, nothing was available. "

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" I've always fought any form of censorship. "

" It's complicated for my music to be accepted, even in Lebanon and the Arabic world - I sing in Arabic, but there's no lute, no classical instruments. Maybe with the Internet opening things up, things will change. "

" Change means resistance, and resistance means transformation and igniting energies. "

" My dad was a brilliant civil engineer. My parents later divorced, but we lived in Abu Dhabi, Greece, Kuwait. "

" As an artist, you need to be true to yourself and free and not put yourself in a box that contradicts with what you feel is needed for a song. "

" Collaborating with other artists is an emotional thing. Obviously, you don't do it unless this person inspires you. "

" When I started doing music, it was out of despair and boredom. I got passionate about it, and I felt that it allowed me to become somebody: an artist who explores her different identities. "

" When it comes to the lyrics, I write about my own perception of things and use characters for that. "

" When I go to Beirut, I don't drive. It's traumatizing to drive there. "

" World music can be sometimes like the lumber room in which all the non-English singers are dumped. When you are singing in Arabic, no matter what your style of music or artistic proposition is, you are faced with some of that reality. "

" I sing 'Beirut' for what the city is for me, but I am also singing as an exile. "

" I don't relate to what is seen as 'Arab culture.' I relate to what I explore myself, what is around me. "

" You do not start by working on society; you start by yourself to be a freer person and a more independent person. "

" Imagine a singer with the virtuosity of Joan Sutherland or Ella Fitzgerald, the public persona of Eleanor Roosevelt, and the audience of Elvis, and you have Umm Kulthum. "

" I was born in the middle of Lebanon's civil war. "

" Singing is a very sensual activity! You engage in it with all your senses and your heart. "

" I had an Arabic background. but I lived a very scattered childhood. I didn't belong to any one culture, which meant I didn't have musical geographies in my head. "

" I wanted to pursue my own thing - I had desires, ideas I wanted to accomplish, and I needed to be on my own for that. "

" I have learned to create from a hybridized point of view. It's an asset - something rather liberating. "

" When I imagine feminine characters in my songs, they're often bold, strong, passionate, militant, witty, sensual, dangerous. I see those characters as skillful witnesses, figures of change and awakening. "

" Without freedom and without humor, our cultures can't have a healthy evolution. "

" I love Khaliji music; it's very inspiring. "

" I was raised by strong women, and the role models I had in music and cinema were strong, too - liberated and provocative. "

" There is something spiritual about art that connects us with ourselves and with others; it's really about coming together and creating bridges. "

" Women are a minority the same way gay people are. "

" For me, a taxi is like a public space because so many people get in that space. "

" It's interesting to be at once an insider and outsider. It's a way of learning how to find your way freely without the need of conforming or belonging. "

" I follow my desires, and I'm prepared to take the consequences. "

" A lot of Arabic composers such as Mohammed Abdel Wahab mixed sounds and instruments from all over the world. It's important to be able to propose new ways and new sounds without being stigmatised, censored or put aside. "

" Back in Kuwait, I had started listening to a lot of English language music: western music, I would say - Kate Bush and Radiohead - and I loved Chet Baker, Etna James, a lot of singers and a lot of bands. "