FKA twigs Quotes
Born: January 16, 1988
FKA twigs, born Tahliah Barnett, is a visionary artist whose work embodies resilience and unyielding focus. Rising from the underground dance scene to global acclaim, she channels personal adversity—from health battles to public scrutiny—into transcendent art. Her philosophy centers on reclaiming power through vulnerability, urging others to transform pain into purpose. Twigs’ quotes resonate because they speak to the quiet strength found in discipline and self-reclamation. She reminds us that focus is not rigidity but a fluid, fierce devotion to one’s truth. Her legacy is a testament to the beauty of rising, again and again, with grace intact.
FKA twigs Quotes (41)
"Being beautiful isn't everything... Sometimes it's interesting to show how you feel on the inside on the outside, just through expressing yourself."
— Fka Twigs"Vulnerability is the strongest state to be in. How boring would it be if we were constantly dominant or constantly submissive?"
— Fka 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 neutralises. It's more of a statement on society and how weird it is."
— Fka Twigs"Textures apply to everything I do. Even within my music, I like smooth things, and then hard and fluffy things, all giving them their place to shine."
— Fka Twigs"If you're an artist, you have to use everything to your advantage, even the pain."
— Fka Twigs"I don't know any Beatles songs. My dad never listened to Elvis or Sting or Bowie. Any band name that's on a t-shirt, I probably won't know their music, like AC/DC or whatever. I don't know what that is. As a kid, I would sing along to artists like Tania Maria."
— Fka Twigs"I definitely keep myself to myself; I don't really go out. If my friends want to see me, they know to come around to my house."
— Fka Twigs"What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at."
— Fka Twigs"I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner."
— Fka Twigs"Sometimes I feel 15; other times, I feel fully grown and mature and handling all my business. It can waver from day to day, hour to hour."
— Fka Twigs"A few years ago, I found out that there's a lot of Gypsy blood on my mother's side. I'm wild in that way - I've been brought up to do my own thing."
— Fka Twigs"Fashion's important to me, but beauty fades. All that stuff is fun while it lasts, but anything can happen tomorrow. You've got to have so much more about you than the way you look or your clothes."
— Fka Twigs"I love my music, so I want to produce, write, and serve my music. I've had to learn about EQ frequencies and programming and space and clutter and how to be a better piano or bass player - everything."
— Fka Twigs"I want people to see what's inside my head rather than just looking at me."
— Fka Twigs"I love things that are harsh and things that are too loud. And I love lulling people into a false sense of security. That's life."
— Fka Twigs"I'm an artist, and I'm a bit weird, and I'm probably a bit eccentric."
— Fka Twigs"I'm appealing to people who want something different, but the world, on the whole, doesn't really embrace different things. Not on the whole."
— Fka Twigs"When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting."
— Fka 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."
— Fka Twigs"I really enjoy the fun of putting something out and people liking it or hating it or talking about it, but vacuous attention, it feels disgusting. It's like a hangover."
— Fka Twigs"It's weird: for someone who mostly really exists online, I'm actually not very interested in the Internet at all."
— Fka Twigs"I moved to London to go to dance school when I was about 17, but then I realized that I didn't want to be a dancer anymore, so I dropped out after five or six weeks. All I wanted to do was sing and make music."
— Fka Twigs"I feel confident that the work I've put in will make people see me as a music artist before anything else."
— Fka Twigs"It's really easy to project this whole ideology of what being an artiste is, and I'm just not down with intellectualizing it. I just think, if you feel like doing something, then do it."
— Fka Twigs"I've never been into the typical R&B voice, with runs and bluesy sounding words. That doesn't suit me."
— Fka Twigs"I've soaked up so much through dancing, but I also have to be still. I want to be silent and read, to shut up and take time to respect the vision someone put into a book."
— Fka Twigs"I write exactly what I think. If it's a raw subject, I write lots of things and then pull out all the fluff words."
— Fka Twigs"When I first released music, and no one knew what I looked like, I would read comments like: 'I've never heard anything like this before; it's not in a genre.' And then my picture came out six months later: now she's an R&B singer."
— Fka Twigs