“I was given this beautiful coffee table book of Soviet architecture fo...” — Roisin Murphy Quote

I was given this beautiful coffee table book of Soviet architecture for my birthday. It has a lot of holiday camps, swimming pools, theatres, and buildings that were built for leisure activities. Incredible architecture in the most obscure places. It's a little bit sad, because a lot of it has been left to fall apart.

I've always been attracted to weirdos.

That's the good thing about pop. You can do whatever you like... it's a bendable medium.

I've only ever had surprises. My whole career's a surprise!

On 'Hairless Toys,' I've tried to create an ambiguous character to go with an ambiguous record. She's anything but rock n' roll - she's so not rock n' roll that, in a twisted way, she's kind of radical. She's like someone from my memory, almost like my mother, and she's lost in some space-time between the 1960s and the late '80s.

I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.

I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

I'm so into this idea that the Internet was this reservoir of mythologies and histories, and the architecture of it being linked pages that create hard connections and bridges between ideas that shouldn't be linked.

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.