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FKA twigs Quotes

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

– FKA twigs

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.

– FKA twigs

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.’

– FKA twigs

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. It’s more of a statement on society and how weird it is.

– FKA twigs

Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it’s unacceptable online.

– FKA twigs

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.

– FKA twigs

It’s really easy to project this whole ideology of what being an artiste is, and I’m just not down with intellectualizing it. I just think, if you feel like doing something, then do it.

– FKA twigs

Vulnerability is the strongest state to be in. How boring would it be if we were constantly dominant or constantly submissive?

– FKA twigs

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

– FKA twigs

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.

– FKA twigs

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.

– FKA twigs

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.

– FKA twigs

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.

– FKA twigs

I really enjoy the fun of putting something out and people liking it or hating it or talking about it, but vacuous attention, it feels disgusting. It’s like a hangover.

– FKA twigs

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

– FKA twigs

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.

– FKA twigs

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.

– FKA twigs

I moved to London to go to dance school when I was about 17, but then I realized that I didn’t want to be a dancer anymore, so I dropped out after five or six weeks. All I wanted to do was sing and make music.

– FKA twigs

I feel confident that the work I’ve put in will make people see me as a music artist before anything else.

– FKA twigs

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.

– FKA twigs

I was always the poor kid, even though I very much tried to pretend to be the other way. Always well presented. Always really active in the school, doing fashion shows, plays, involved in every single aspect of the school. Overcompensating, I think, for the fact that I knew I wouldn’t be going on the ski trip every January.

– FKA twigs

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.

– FKA twigs

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

– FKA twigs

It’s weird: for someone who mostly really exists online, I’m actually not very interested in the Internet at all.

– FKA twigs

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.

– FKA twigs

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.

– FKA twigs