Robyn
Robyn
Robin Miriam Carlsson, known as Robyn, is a Swedish singer, songwriter and record producer. Robyn first came to the music scene with her 1995 debut album Robyn Is Here which spawned two Billboard Hot 100 top 10 hit singles; "Do You Know" and "Show Me Love". Her second and third studio albums My Truthand Don't Stop the Musicwere only released in her native country. Robyn returned to international success with her fourth album Robynwhich earned her critical acclaim and a...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth12 June 1979
CityStockholm, Sweden
CountrySweden
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.
If people were really naked and everyone knew what each other was thinking, everyone would probably just laugh... or they'd lock each other up.
If you do things out of time you're weird.
Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign.
I'm good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers.
As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.
If you miss someone too much you turn into them... though it doesn't seem to work for the Christian Church.
I'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either.
I don't advocate Stalinist monolithic state structures any more than I advocate capitalistic monoliths. Unfortunately, human society tends to the monolithic, whether you go to the left or right, everybody in leathers, or everybody holding Chairman Mao's book, and if everybody goes to one end of the pitch, I always go to the other.
Love is the distance between reality and pain.
I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.
Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.
People from the past always seem to have much more time to create beautiful, intricate, delicate things that often reach the future in a kind of curled-up, capsized state.
Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.