Robyn Quotes

If you make money back from your record, you're doing it smart. It's an expensive hobby. I'm lucky enough to still make a living as a musician through live work and odd bits of royalties.

Generally, I have an instinct for the noncommercial. And the unpopular.

I've never been burdened with a hit record, so I don't have to play the same songs. I play songs people think they like.

If I played just one song from every album, I would be onstage for two and a half hours. No one wants a show that long.

I think The Beatles are the lasting influence on me, even more so than Dylan.

I could never be a professional comedian, 'cause you have to keep telling the same jokes. For me, they're like word solos.

When I first started listening to music intently as a teenager, I was always sitting there with a biro or a pencil, drawing. That's how I absorbed it all.

I'm good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers.

I'm 63. It's kind extraordinary that I'm out here at all and people want to see me.

The Red Comyns had always done well behind the throne. The king was but an instrument, as his father used to say. They were the musicians.

That's all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going.

Patience is a power unto itself.

I didn’t want to cry in front of you.”He wiped away the tears with the pad of his thumb. in front of me.

Did you miss me?’“A little bit, ” she said with a shrug.“You have tears running down your cheeks, ” he said with a grin. “I think you missed me more than a little.

She has to agree to have me. It could take some time, but I’m confident I can trick her into it.

We’re adults. I might be a little more of an adult if you’re counting years but I bet I have a lower IQ, so that puts us pretty much even.

Until meeting you, I wasn’t looking for anything at all. Since meeting you, I’m kind of looking for a girlfriend.

Wow, ” she said. “Do you realise how wonderful you sound?”“Yes, I do, ” he said with a firm nod. “And I think I’m underappreciated.

How do you know?”“Well, I don’t, I’m making this up, but I bet I’m right.

We’ll make out for a while and you’ll feel better.

Your big scary husband is crying.

Marry me. You'll learn to love me, I promise.

What are you doing here?”All right, he was standing in front of an easel, holding a paint palette and brush. “Taxidermy?” he responded with just a touch of his own sarcasm.

Don't leave yet, " he said, his voice hoarse. "Let me do something. Let me feed you. Hold you. Rub your shoulders. Change your oil. Anything, please.

But you were concerned about making sure things, you know, didn't get serious.""Yeah, because I'm an idiot.

I like the way you kiss-a couple of test kisses, then a huge kiss.

Maybe we could, um, go sit in the truck?" he said, but even as he said it, it sounded so dumb. And not exactly the way he wanted her to remember a marriage proposal.

Tom. Tom, look at me. Has Nora agreed to marry you?""No, but she will because she has to.

And the thing about trying to cheat death is that, in the end, you still lose.

...the collective wisdom of humanity [is] enshrined in its poetry.

People don't get to our ages without having pasts. I'm more interested in the future.

It turns out the mark of a happy life isn't staying just one step ahead of the grim reaper. It's knowing you're strong.

I love that there's such a rivalry. It's like, leaf water versus bean water, ya know? - Charlie

Find your safe space. Approach it with grace. Listen to your body. And give yourself the permission to feel overwhelmed. You've weathered harsher storms. And the blue skies? They're on their way.

I didn't realise you'd ridden here on your high horse

Women know intuitively when they are being devalued. (121)

..pain can't be taken away. It has to leave on its own. And I wasn't sure mine was the type of pain that wanted to go away.

Art is pain. And so is life.

We're living tragedies, just passing time 'til our funerals.

We mourn the future because it's easier than admitting that we're miserable in the present.

If you take action while you are mad, you will always make the wrong decision.

Dragonflies are reminders that we are light and we can reflect light in powerful ways if we choose to do so.

A moment later I am moving through space. Spinning. Twirling. Dancing.In the light.

Do Dragons eat Mexican?" Hank wondered out loud."Dude, they eat people. Mexican is a vast improvement over people.

Do you mind if we leave here so I can chain smoke 'til I throw up so it will be easier to quit?

The past is uselessto me now:an old suitcasewith mould in the lining, heavy even when empty.

Look, you can't change your past, Ditty, but you've still got your future.

She killed to get the dream she wanted, then found out it didn't want her back.

It was like Latham: sometimes the point wasn't being the best, because it didn't mean you had the best life, or the best friends, or the best time.

How many beers do y'all think it takes before one internationally scientist turns to another and says, 'Dude, bet you twenty bucks I can levitate a frog with a magnet?' ' Sam drawled.