Top 30 FKA twigs Quotes

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 love things that are harsh and things that are too loud. And I love lulling people into a false sense of security. That’s life.

I’m a country girl. The more big cities I go to, the more fashionistas and designers I meet who want to dress me, the more I have all these kind of superficial but amazing experiences, the more I just realize that I’m from Gloucestershire.

I always felt like Tahliah’s a very grown-up name to have. It’s a pretty name when you’re young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don’t know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn’t live up to it.

In school, I had a tough time fitting in, and dancing was my way of being in my own element. As a teenager, I became a bit disillusioned with it. Even with competitions, I’d win, but still there would be tears.

Textures apply to everything I do. Even within my music, I like smooth things, and then hard and fluffy things, all giving them their place to shine.

Obviously I know if you’re putting yourself out there, saying, ‘Hey! Listen to my music!,’ with pictures of yourself in the magazines, then people are going to judge you. ‘I hate her music. I hate her hair. I hate her production. I hate her videos.’ Fine: don’t care. That’s the great thing about art: it’s not for everyone.

What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I’ve been working hard at.

I was never the pretty girl at school. I’m tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.

Fashion’s important to me, but beauty fades. All that stuff is fun while it lasts, but anything can happen tomorrow. You’ve got to have so much more about you than the way you look or your clothes.

Sometimes I feel 15; other times, I feel fully grown and mature and handling all my business. It can waver from day to day, hour to hour.

I’m not going to become a costume version or caricature of myself; I like to morph.

I’m in so many videos. There was a period of about two years where I danced for everyone: Kylie Minogue, Ed Sheeran, Jessie J, Taio Cruz. It got to the point where my fees were double the other girls’, and I wouldn’t even have to audition. They’d call my agent directly and say, ‘We want twigs to come in.’

I’ve never been into the typical R&B voice, with runs and bluesy sounding words. That doesn’t suit me.

I want people to see what’s inside my head rather than just looking at me.

When I first released music, and no one knew what I looked like, I would read comments like: ‘I’ve never heard anything like this before; it’s not in a genre.’ And then my picture came out six months later: now she’s an R&B singer.

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.’

I don’t know any Beatles songs. My dad never listened to Elvis or Sting or Bowie. Any band name that’s on a t-shirt, I probably won’t know their music, like AC/DC or whatever. I don’t know what that is. As a kid, I would sing along to artists like Tania Maria.

I love my music, so I want to produce, write, and serve my music. I’ve had to learn about EQ frequencies and programming and space and clutter and how to be a better piano or bass player – everything.

I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It’s very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.

I definitely keep myself to myself; I don’t really go out. If my friends want to see me, they know to come around to my house.

I’m an artist, and I’m a bit weird, and I’m probably a bit eccentric.

I’m the happiest when I’m in the studio, not on a beauty parade.

Being beautiful isn’t everything… Sometimes it’s interesting to show how you feel on the inside on the outside, just through expressing yourself.

I spent my whole teenage life trying to get to London and go to dance school, but when I got there, I couldn’t wait to get to the clubs on weekends. I knew I wanted to make music.

A few years ago, I found out that there’s a lot of Gypsy blood on my mother’s side. I’m wild in that way – I’ve been brought up to do my own thing.

I’m appealing to people who want something different, but the world, on the whole, doesn’t really embrace different things. Not on the whole.

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.

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.

If you’re an artist, you have to use everything to your advantage, even the pain.