Quotes from Rosalia

Everyone around me has maximum respect for my vision.

There's a lot of magic in voices. I love voices that are very old, very gravelly, very deep. I like metallic voices; I like velvety voices. The voices of children.

I have big dreams, but if God would've told me that I had to sing in a local bar in Barcelona, and that that would be my life, that would be my life, I would've done it with the same passion.

I want every record I make to be different to the one before - even if I fail one day.

Barcelona is an open and multicultural city. It's brimming with a very special creative energy. If you pay attention, you may be easily inspired by the places and people living there.

People who are perfectionists always want to control everything, but when you sing, you have to let go. And that's hard.

I can't walk around like I used to, and there's always paparazzi waiting outside the studio.

I wanted to have absolute control over my music - from the chords and the voicings of the songs to the arrangements and the production.

Planes do not inspire me.

My music pulls from flamenco plenty; it wouldn't make sense without that genre. I also have a lot of love for flamenco and I'm very happy if I can be an ambassador for it.

I understand that flamenco has very specific rules and codes, and there's the weight of tradition, so I can understand when people do not enjoy something that is more heterodox.

Working with Pharrell was a dream... Collaborations like that are where you come up with sounds that maybe you wouldn't have found otherwise.

To learn flamenco is to swallow your pride.

When I sang in bars and weddings, where you have to fight to be heard, you gain incredible humility.

There are times when your ego has to contract.

I have no prejudice about which music is better. I listen to Vivaldi. I like Nick Cave. I love Travis Scott, James Blake, Lola Flores. Music can serve many functions. And so I listen to everything!

Hands have a major presence in flamenco, and when your hands are decorated, it adds power.

As a teenager, I remember Missy Elliot: seeing how she carried herself, made her music, and presented herself as an artist. That strength inspired me. If my work can do the same for others, I feel very grateful and proud of that.

When I was around ten, I decided I would devote myself and my life to music.

I would always change my Barbies. I'd cut their hair, paint on tattoos, and create new clothes for them. I would invent elaborate stories: fights, dramas, successes. I would try out my ideas on them. And sometimes they would sing!

Milionaria' is the first song I've composed and I published in Catalan, it's also the first song I do inspired by Catalan rumba. I started it in Seville while I was waiting at the airport and I finished it in Barcelona.

During isolation, one can bring a different approach to the creative process.

For me, music is about experimentation.

When I was a teen, I would draw a really, really long line around my eyes with eyeliner, like Lola Flores.