Quotes by Alison Goldfrapp

About Alison Goldfrapp:

Alison Elizabeth Margaret Goldfrapp is an English musician and record producer, best known as the lead vocalist of the electronic music duo Goldfrapp.
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I carry my own food around on tour; I permanently have carrier bags full of cereal and bananas.

Alison Goldfrapp

Anything is food for starting a song. A song can start with a lyric idea or a melody or just a sound that inspires.

Alison Goldfrapp

My dad used to ignore me when I was a kid. He couldn't stand my voice, so he just used to ignore me, and then he'd impersonate me.

Alison Goldfrapp

Good dreams are better than films or books.

Alison Goldfrapp

I love escaping into film, because everyday life I find quite troublesome. So any excuse to go into a cinema and say goodbye to the world for a couple of hours, or in a book or whatever, is great.

Alison Goldfrapp

I live on the edge of Bath. It's really lovely, but its very loveliness freaks me out a bit. It's peaceful, a great antidote to the craziness of being on tour, but sometimes I feel as though I've retired.

Alison Goldfrapp

I'm not very good at cooking, and I'm away all the time, and I like transient living. I get really itchy feet if I stay in one place.

Alison Goldfrapp

Humans have always used animals to depict ideas about themselves: ideas about their status, about their position in life and society and the world.

Alison Goldfrapp

I try to read as much as I can - all the time, really. And I absolutely love going to the cinema, especially during the day.

Alison Goldfrapp

I love entering the bowels of the cinema and immersing myself in another world.

Alison Goldfrapp

I'd like a telescope, but I probably wouldn't look at the stars that often. I'd definitely be looking into people's flats most of the time.

Alison Goldfrapp

I think that there are many aspects to the relationship between humans and animals. But briefly, humans appear to have always been fascinated by them from the time of cave paintings and before.

Alison Goldfrapp

I think some women try to make you feel you're not all female because you haven't given birth. There are a lot of prejudices. Some women think women who have animals are deeply sad, because what they really want is a child. Mind you, there's probably...

Alison Goldfrapp

The two have to go hand in hand - the atmosphere and the music. I actually get rather worried if I can't see the music first. There always needs to be a mood, a feeling, a story, even if it is abstract. There's got to be a narrative to guide things b...

Alison Goldfrapp

I think it's a bit of a myth that if you can read music you can write music. It doesn't work like that.

Alison Goldfrapp

There's not that much English folk music that is really that appealing.

Alison Goldfrapp

I was clear that I wanted to do music and I wanted to write songs. But I wasn't clear about how I was going to make that happen. I wrote loads of songs but didn't want to show them to anyone.

Alison Goldfrapp

Any abuse of animals is the same as abuse of men, women, or children.

Alison Goldfrapp

I think a lot of singers are shy people. I suppose singing on stage is not like talking; you are not as exposed.

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I don't think that just because you go on stage you are an exhibitionist.

Alison Goldfrapp

Author Bio

  • NameAlison Goldfrapp
  • DescriptionEnglish singer-songwriter
  • BornMay 13, 1966
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionMusician; Singer; Record Producer; Singer-songwriter