Quotes from Alison Goldfrapp

I have a cat. When I was younger, I had a guinea pig.

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.

It's so hard to pick a 'single.' I always want it to be whatever my favorite tune is, but often the record company and the person whose job it is to take it to radio have different ideas.

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.

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

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

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

I find shopping too stressful. I get hot and flustered and irritated and feel sick after I've bought something.

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.