Paloma Faith Quotes

They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.

Nobody asks me about what male musicians I think about; I only ever get asked about females.

There are so many times that, as a woman in the music industry, you're asked questions no male musician would ever be asked.

As a female, we always have to be labeled this new female rapper. It's never like, 'I heard this rapper Tink.' It's always, 'I heard a female rapper.'

I don't like being put in the same category as people because we have the same genitals and boobs. Nobody is going to write "Lily Allen vs. Ed Sheeran." It just doesn't happen.

People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'

I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

People make such a big deal about how people in bands look, especially if you're a girl.

And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve.

In this industry, all the heads of labels are men, but every artist has to prove themselves, regardless of their sex. I have always been very vocal about the women sticking together.

With a male-centric show, the women are usually very two-dimensional.

I get the feeling that characters are written female when they have to be, and all the other characters are male, and it doesn't occur to somebody that the lawyer, the best friend, the landlord, whoever, can be female.

Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.

You know, I try not to think too much about women guitarists versus men guitarists; the world does that for me.

From the time I was 20 and people would say, 'Chicks with Picks,' I hated it. It's not a genre, it's a gender.

People stereotype female rappers a whole lot.

When you're coming out new, it's harder as a girl to gain fans because most of them are girls, and they can be like, 'Do we like her?' If I were a boy, it'd be much easier.

I wasn't taken seriously being the only girl playing in band growing up.

I don't want there to always be this stigma of the "female" artist. "Oh, what does it feel like to be a female doing something?" That hurts me.

Tejano music was hard for us because I was a girl. My dad had a lot of problems while trying to set up shows for us or presentations because there are a lot of men who don't think that women can get the attention of the public. But ... wrong!

That was exactly why people didn't want to give us any kind of life, because we were threatening their status quo, and they just didn't want to have room for girls playing rock 'n' roll. It bothered them. First, people just tried to get around it by saying, "Oh, wow, isn't that cute? Girls playing rock 'n' roll!," and when we said, "Yeah, right, this isn't a phase; it's what we want to do with our lives," it became, "Oh! You must be a bunch of sluts. You dykes, you whores." That's what it became. Then it became a name-calling contest.

As an artist, I never wanted to be fettered by gender nor recognized or defined as a female poet, musician or singer. They don't do that with men - nobody says Picasso, the male artist. Curators call me up and say, "We want your work to be in a show about women artists," and I'm like, why? For Christ's sake, do we have to attach a gender onto everything?

'Princess' is a good word, as is 'girlish', 'pixie-like' and all these other things. I personally find it a bit boring, it's all been done before. The amount of times you read reviews of bands and it's an all-girl four-piece, and they talk about what the women are wearing... you'll never read a review that's like: "Male singer Thom Yorke, who was dressed in a white t-shirt and jeans..." You would never read that about a man.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.