Romy Madley Croft Quotes

I started out writings songs for what I thought was going to be a maximum of five people down our local pub.

- Romy Madley Croft

Mainstream pop is a bit more introspective and emotional now, like how Adele's 'Someone Like You' is everyone's favorite song, and it's so heartbreaking.

- Romy Madley Croft

I taught myself how to use a multi-track tape recorder, which was the first time I recorded myself.

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I had this all-American cheerleader girl, in Georgia or somewhere, coming up to me and asking for guest list at a show. I never thought our music would reach out to such a broad variety of people like that.

- Romy Madley Croft

I lived with my auntie and my cousin when I was growing up, and they always wore black, and I thought it was quite chic. It wasn't a goth or a social group sort of thing.

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When I think about myself as a teenager going to festivals, you look to the main stage as the main entertainment of the night.

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The lyrics - everything I sing, I've written.

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Rat Records in Camberwell is where most of my record collection has come from. It's like someone with my exact taste in music has handed them all their old vinyl.

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As a fan of pop music myself, I hate discovering that a favourite track has a completely different meaning from the one I thought.

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I do love brash pop music. It's fun.

- Romy Madley Croft

There's a place in Dalston, in England, called LNCC, where you have to make an appointment in order to shop.

- Romy Madley Croft

Aaliyah has been an artist I've grown up with, like an older sister.

- Romy Madley Croft

You become friends with someone when you're 16, but by the time you get to 20, you're a completely different person.

- Romy Madley Croft

I grew up in Wandsworth and was constantly on public transport, as there wasn't much going on around there.

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My friends call me an owl. Apparently, it's a combination of being wise and having big eyes.

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My guitar sound pretty much came from discovering there was reverb on my little practice amp and really loving the mood it created.

- Romy Madley Croft

When you sign over your music to the BBC or Channel 4, you are signing it over, and they either use it, or they don't.

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You can't really sit and start singing into a laptop at an airport. Well, you could, but you'd have a lot of sound in the background.

- Romy Madley Croft

'Angels' is about being in love.

- Romy Madley Croft

At a festival like Coachella, you're not necessarily playing for your fans. You're playing to some, but there is also a lot of people that have maybe heard one of your songs, but aren't quite fans yet, so you feel like you have something to prove.

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Chromatics' 'Kill For Love' has probably been the record I've listened to the most.

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I sometimes get asked, 'What's it like, being spotted?', but the truth is I don't, ever. I love that I can walk around, being private.

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I really love that: bringing people together and feeling the love.

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I love that people can feel the bass in their body.

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I always wear 'Hannah Marshall', all black.

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I'm happy - despite things that might have happened in my life.

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My mum died when I was 11.

- Romy Madley Croft

I'm proud of having a girlfriend; it just doesn't have anything to do with my music.

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I only started singing at about 15, and it came as quite a surprise to my dad.

- Romy Madley Croft

I was a very shy kid and really into art.

- Romy Madley Croft

Always treat people the way you would like to be treated. My mum told me that, and it often comes into my mind.

- Romy Madley Croft