FKA twigs Quotes
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I'm a very free woman, and maybe freedom is erotic in that way. Maybe it's conceived of as something dangerous, and dangerous - in that creative and wild way - is sensuous and erotic. For me it's more about making what I feel, but there's always a reason, a level of integrity and classical expression in what I do.
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I once said to a boy, ‘You’re a really good kisser,’ and he said, ‘You’re only as good as the person you’re kissing.' I think it’s the same with the music. If someone [says], ‘Your music is really provocative,’ I’m only as provocative as the person that’s listening to it.
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No boyfriend wants to see their girlfriend in a video with a big, handsome black dude feeding his fingers into her mouth, do they? But that concept is my expression, and boyfriends have to deal with that, don't they?
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I don't want to be in front of the camera forever. I'm not thirsty. I'm not a pop star. I don't want to reign over all forever. I don't want to be famous! It makes me feel sick, the thought of being a famous person. It's just not me. I'm the happiest when I'm in the studio, not on a beauty parade.
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I don’t know if I’m a tortured soul, but I was born heartbroken. I remember feeling it when I was so young. I was like, ‘Mum, it hurts.’
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I do have traditional values: I believe in being a good person and being polite.
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I'm a little bit older, I've traveled the world, spent lots of time in New York and Paris and lots of inspiring places, and I still feel alien.
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If I want to dress myself a certain way, I don't want to have to rely on someone else to do it for me.
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I'm a country girl, raised in Gloucestershire, England. But my family encouraged me to travel, and I wanted to experience the world. Maybe that's not traditional, but my values have stayed strong. Perhaps that's where wanting to have children comes into it: I'll always be making work; I guess when - and if - I have children, I'll have them with me.
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Half of my life I’ve had people staring at me because they think I’m funny-looking and ugly. The other half of my life I’ve had people staring at me because they think I’m fascinating. Everything neutralises
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I really keep my life very simple.
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I hope to do a visual for every single thing, even if it’s as small as a gif or as big as a whole dance music film.
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I think 'fan' implies somebody who's submissive, sycophantic, in awe of everything you're doing.
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I don't think it's realistic for someone to have an undying loyalty to everything you ever make.
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We live in a very strange world where everything is so accessible; if you like one song someone did, you can see what they ate for breakfast or what kind of sunglasses they wore.
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I have amazing collaborators as well, but I want to learn more and be a self-contained unit.
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The idea's the idea: It's about what you do, and not who you are.
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I've been inspired by people's work, but I never grew up with posters on my bedroom wall or obsessed with one person.
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I don't understand people's obsessions.
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I've lived in the same place in London for the last seven years, I go and get my shopping, I get on buses, and [all the rest] is pretty much outside of who I am.
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When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something, they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
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I just try to keep my dignity and carry on with my day.
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When I was very young I wanted to be an opera singer, a ballet dancer... The people I loved were a little different.
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