Interview Quotes

The Nature of Art and Truth

"I think the best fiction is the fiction that has this blurry line between what's personal and what's universal, what's detailed and what's abstract."

— Rosalía • 00:00:02

"There has to be some sort of truth for me in it, but at the same time, I think it's much more about the other."

— Rosalía • 00:00:12

"If you are writing from this place, then you can sing from this place."

— Rosalía • 00:00:17

"I promised myself I was going to make an album where I was going to finish the thought, finish the song, go all the way until the end."

— Rosalía • 00:00:22

"Motomami was minimalist. This is maximalism."

— Rosalía • 00:00:28

The Creative Process and Inspiration

"It can be discouraging sometimes how long it takes, but I think it's teaching me patience."

— Rosalía • 00:01:17

"He used to say, 'Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.'"

— Rosalía • 00:02:38

"I think I kind of isolate. But at the same time, I listen to myself."

— Rosalía • 00:03:42

"This is what I needed. I feel like I always do projects, find the excuse to study what I want to study and go through what I want to go through and feel like my heart is needing and it's craving."

— Rosalía • 00:05:29

"I think it's important to, while collecting stories about the other, I feel like then making songs inspired in that, like I'm celebrating and giving love to the other, to the otherness, trying to understand the otherness better."

— Rosalía • 00:08:08

"I don't think it's about me though. I think though, that it's an album that fortunately or unfortunately it will have pieces of me, little pieces of me."

— Rosalía • 00:09:15

"But it's inspired in Santa Rosa de Lima. And how her, sus reliquias are spread around the world."

— Rosalía • 00:10:08

"I don't think I ever cried so much making an album. I don't think I've ever, ever, ever, ever cried so much recording vocals."

— Rosalía • 00:14:13

"She pointed out this kind of, like, musical tourette or something. This, this sort of like, kind of like, why do you have to destroy the song always?"

— Rosalía • 00:16:00

"I'm going to make the next album. I promised myself I was going to make an album where I was going to at least try, at least try to finish the thought, finish the song, go all the way until the end."

— Rosalía • 00:17:09

"And it's very intentional that it doesn't have loops. That was kind of a rule. We were like, we were not going to do no loops."

— Rosalía • 00:19:20

"The journey. It's not about getting to, from point A to B. It's go through it. Let yourself go through it."

— Rosalía • 00:20:45

"I feel like we all kind of have these labyrinths in our heads. These forests of thoughts that you can get lost in."

— Rosalía • 00:36:57

"I saw her spitting. On stage. With so much grace. And so much, like, not giving a fuck. Not giving a shit. Type of energy."

— Rosalía • 00:44:53

"Si la presión hace diamantes, ¿por qué no estamos todos brillando?"

— Rosalía • 00:48:42

Personal Growth and Spirituality

"Having doubt, it's a proof that you are alive, that what you're doing is true and it's alive."

— Rosalía • 00:51:38

"Desiring less. Desiring less. I'm not meditating as much these days. I'm praying more."

— Rosalía • 00:53:49

"I pray to different things depending on what I'm lacking and what I'm missing more."

— Rosalía • 00:54:42

"So sometimes it's about asking for guidance when you don't see clear enough. Sometimes it's about asking for blessings for the people that you love."

— Rosalía • 00:55:42

Reflections on Performance and Identity

"I think it's an imperfect... It's in an imperfect way because it's made from a human and humans."

— Rosalía • 00:59:27

"I really had the feeling that this just sometimes come maybe once. I don't know if something like this could... At this, like, level of intensity, I don't know if I could do it again."

— Rosalía • 01:01:58

"Why not though? Why not? Why not?"

— Rosalía • 01:05:53

"I feel like, anything, these days I've been thinking about, extreme femininity, it's performative as much as extreme masculinity."

— Rosalía • 01:14:32

"I love Nick Cave because of that acceptance of I can be something that I'm not all the time."

— Rosalía • 01:17:40

"I focus on this, the idea that I want to do, and I execute it. And I don't try to make 50 songs. I try to do 18."

— Rosalía • 01:23:03

"So, this woman, Rabia, she used to say, she used to speak and people would write what she was saying. And apparently, she would talk a lot about the idea of loving God, por Dios mismo, querer a Dios por Dios mismo."

— Rosalía • 01:25:06

"And I like how imperfect memory is. And yeah, I think that it was just trying to have some dynamics in the song, where it would be a little bit more soft, lower."

— Rosalía • 01:28:32

Life Lessons and Experiences

"The sky is so close. The sky is like, you can reach it and you could almost like... You could eat it."

— Rosalía • 01:34:12

"And Japan put me in my feelings. Japan is like this juxtaposition between playfulness and like... Whoa!"

— Rosalía • 01:35:37

"I had... Una... Una historia de amor aquí. A tough one. A tough... Tough love."

— Rosalía • 01:37:40

"I beg for it. 10, 15 years ago, I begged for it. I wanted it so bad."

— Rosalía • 01:45:39

"And my connection with God, it's always been there."

— Rosalía • 01:49:09

"I think that anything that is extreme might be performative."

— Rosalía • 01:13:58