Robyn Quotes

The orchid is Mother Nature's masterpiece.

The two things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what.

I've got big hips and a big body. I'm double, triple the size of other models - and I embrace that - I own it.

An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.

The good Lord in his ultimate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs, but the greatest of these was dogs.

And there are new kinds of nomads, not people who are at home everywhere, but who are at home nowhere. I was one of them

I believe when you’re stuck in one spot for too long it’s best to throw a grenade where you stand, and jump…and pray.

When there is no one to remind you what society's rules are, and there is nothing to keep you linked to that society, you had better be prepared for some startling changes.

I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.

I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.

As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.

I was speechless. Rare for me, but if anyone was capable of shocking me to silence, it was my mother.

People think plus-size models don’t exercise – we do! But it’s about health, not forcing my body to be something it’s not meant to be.

After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid.

You don't inspire your teammates by showing them how amazing you are. You inspire them by showing them how amazing they are.

I believe that the subconscious always knows what is best. It is our conditional, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up.

Some of us just don't want to be famous ... anonymity cannot be bought for any price, once you have lost it.

Real travel would be to see the world, for even an instant, with another's eyes

Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.

The most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision.

It is better to proceed with one's duty in the service of others than wallow in the pain attachments bring

I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.

But it's about health, not forcing my body to be something it's not meant to be.

A healthy body isn't defined by weight or size. It's about so much more.

Camel trips, as I suspected all along, and as I was about to have confirmed, do not being or end: they mere change form.

There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make it last.

Courage starts when the fun stops

The last thing I would want for my future daughter would be to starve herself because she thought a thigh gap was necessary to be deemed attractive.

The universe is based on sullen entropy; It falls apart as it goes on

See challenges vs. roadblocks.

I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.

Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.

In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.

One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.

Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.

People say, ‘How is she a plus-size model?’ and I’m like, ‘Exactly, this is the point, how am I a plus-size model?

You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm.

It was about being able to dance like Cassidy did, as though no one was watching, as though the moment was infinite enough without needing to document its existence.

Sometimes I write songs that just come out in a pop format because I grew up on melody and these amazing artists during the 80s. It's my tradition and it's something that I can't really control.

The funny thing about gold is how quickly it can tarnish.

Technology has a lot to do with how the world is developing at the moment because there are very raw and pure and primal emotions that people are communicating to each other over the Internet.

You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy.

I'm normal size... I wish we could all be known as models rather than plus size.

I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him.

Love is the distance between reality and pain.

My husband is a former Air Force pilot and my son is an active duty Army surgeon, recently returned from Iraq, so my pride in our military is passionate... and personal.

Struggling is mandatory. Suffering is optional.

We were far more civilized in our divorce than we had ever been in marriage. It seemed we'd finally found something we could do together amicably.

My father, who suffered from hardening of the arteries, was diagnosed as having that tragic thief of the mind, Alzheimer's.