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

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" Music liberated me. "

" The Arabic music I listen to is extremely edgy. Ironic, sarcastic, sensual, erotic. "

" 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. "

" I studied psychology at university. "

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

" I have a sense of mission in a way. I've always worked on being free, as a woman and as an artist. "

" 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. "

" It's normal; Arab women have always been very active at the forefront of culture - as film producers since the 1920s; as singers, dancers, choreographers, writers for much longer than that. "

" The Arab world is mediatised in a way that gives too much space to these people - puritans, extremists, whatever you want to call them. There are a lot more people like me in the Middle East than you might think. "

" 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. "

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

" Every time I go to Beirut, I see people and the quality of life going slowly from bad to worse, and from worse to even worse. "

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

" 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. "

" I don't think there is only one Arab culture or a pure Arabness. We are very multiple, especially our generation, which is very multilayered. "

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

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

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

" My family played a part in bringing communism to Lebanon. "

" 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. "

" When I started, I didn't know how to sing in Arabic - it's a very complex and sophisticated music full of codes and modes and quarter-tones. "

" I've always had a sense that I am doing something very important, something vital. "

" I'm bored, normally, when I travel. "

" I went from the most underground band in the world to signing with Madonna's producer and a record label that is extremely mainstream - it was interesting. "

" If you have a drummer who alternates between fast and slow drumming, it can negatively affect the music. "

" We all have femininity in us. "

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

" I always had this crisis: where do I come from? I was never an insider, never an outsider; I was always in the middle. But it means I never have borders in my head. "