Ayshay Quotes
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I've been exploring gender performativity in the Gulf since I was a teenager. I'm not a gender anthropologist, but I feel like there's an extreme binary between femininity and masculinity in the Gulf. From a young age, I knew I didn't want to be part of it. Gender is a huge gray area, and the problem with defined roles is that they cover up undefined ones.
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The first question American college kids asked me was, 'What state is Kuwait in?' They thought Kuwait was in America.
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I'm fascinated by evil queens. They're very alluring and repellent at the same time, and I'm into that dichotomy.
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When I work on music, I never think about vocalists. They're the last person I'm making music for.
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There are very few pop people I'm interested in working with.
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I had a story-telling mother; she's written novels and short stories. So I feel like maybe I'm staying alive by telling tales.
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I was one of five out of 100 people who passed the test, which just proved to me how little Americans are taught geography.
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My music doesn't exist in a vacuum; there's a script and there's an actor and it's about to come together.
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I'm sure that a lot of my friends - even though they're curious about the music of nations that are not on their radar - still don't know what Kuwaiti music sounds like.
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I'm not a philosopher so why should I provide anyone with the answers? I'm just a musician, I don't have any solutions. All I'm doing is questioning the status quo, with every record I've made, to a certain extend.