twigs: "I just try to keep my dignity and carry on with my day."

twigs: "I'm a little bit older, I've traveled the world, spent lots of time in New York and Paris and lots of inspiring places, and I still feel alien."

twigs: "I do have traditional values: I believe in being a good person and being polite."

twigs: "I'm a country girl, raised in Gloucestershire, England. But my family encouraged me to travel, and I wanted to experience the world. Maybe that's not traditional, but my values have stayed strong. Perhaps that's where wanting to have children comes into it: I'll always be making work; I guess when - and if - I have children, I'll have them with me."

twigs: "If I want to dress myself a certain way, I don't want to have to rely on someone else to do it for me."

twigs: "I'm a very free woman, and maybe freedom is erotic in that way. Maybe it's conceived of as something dangerous, and dangerous - in that creative and wild way - is sensuous and erotic. For me it's more about making what I feel, but there's always a reason, a level of integrity and classical expression in what I do."

twigs: "I don't think it's realistic for someone to have an undying loyalty to everything you ever make."

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 neutralizes."

twigs: "When I was very young I wanted to be an opera singer, a ballet dancer... The people I loved were a little different."

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. If someone [says], ‘Your music is really provocative,’ I’m only as provocative as the person that’s listening to it."

twigs: "I've been inspired by people's work, but I never grew up with posters on my bedroom wall or obsessed with one person."

twigs: "I've lived in the same place in London for the last seven years, I go and get my shopping, I get on buses, and [all the rest] is pretty much outside of who I am."

twigs: "I don't understand people's obsessions."

twigs: "We live in a very strange world where everything is so accessible; if you like one song someone did, you can see what they ate for breakfast or what kind of sunglasses they wore."

twigs: "I have amazing collaborators as well, but I want to learn more and be a self-contained unit."