Fever Ray Quotes

Sweden, Singer-Songwriter
April 7, 1975

Karin Elisabeth Dreijer is a Swedish singer-songwriter and record producer. Dreijer was one half of the electronic music duo the Knife, formed with xer brother Olof Dreijer. Xe was previously the vocalist and guitarist of the alternative rock band Honey Is Cool. Dreijer released xer debut solo album under the alias Fever Ray in January 2009. Xer second studio album, Plunge, under the same alias, was released in October 2017.

Also known as Record Producer, Vocalist, Guitarist

Nowadays, especially when you think of electronic music, it's like, the producer is mostly the one who makes the music or the beats and everything. But I am more, since I'm that old, when I started to make music the producer was just sitting in the back shouting and drinking beer.

Fever Ray
- Thinking
- Drinking
- Beats
Stockholm is very, like, posh and uptight, and everything should be so luxurious and refurbished.

Fever Ray
- Should
- Luxurious
- Posh

I live a bit outside of Stockholm and I almost never go into town. I can live anywhere, I think.

Fever Ray
- Thinking
- Bits
- Anywhere
I believe that people would be happier sharing things and being much more of a collective rather than working from these neo-liberal ideas of just looking after yourself. I think people need each other.

Fever Ray
- People
- Believe
- Thinking
When I start to write and record a track, I always think about where it is supposed to take place, what kind of room that is, and what kind of atmosphere it should have. Also how it should be performed, and by what kind of musicians or vocalists. I work in a very theatrically minded sort of way.

Fever Ray
Sometimes my lyrics are about things that are, well, not the brightest, but I have been working with this outlook for such a long time that it's not dark to me anymore. It's just something that you work through and in the end, it's a lot of happiness.

Fever Ray
Music has the potential and the capability to create something much bigger... it has the capability to be completely free, to do anything. And I think you limit that idea when you put yourself in front of it, in a way.

Fever Ray
- Thinking
- Limits
- Bigger
Music and art is about ideas, I think. Especially music. You have the freedom to work with your ideas and your dreams and your fantasies, which is quite hard to do in many other places.

Fever Ray
- Thinking
- Dream
- Fantasy

Sometimes I think I should get another job, and do this only for its own purpose. It's important to separate creative expression from making money.

Fever Ray
I have been able to find out what I really really want to do myself, trying out ideas that I haven't been able to do before because you don't have to compromise when you work by yourself.

Fever Ray
- Trying
- Ideas
- Yourself