Robyn spoke with Dummy in a Q&A, asking the singer about how by setting up her own label she’s breaking out of the usual pop set up and if that was something she was conscious of when she severed ties with Jive Records. The Swedish pop singer responded:

Yes, it was a very conscious thing. It came out of being in the pop industry for about 10 years and knowing it, and realizing all of a sudden that there was this whole other world with, like, people who were making music on their own terms. I was never an indie kid, I was a club kid and I was brought into the pop industry very early. So for me, it took some time to figure out that there was another way to do it. But once I realized that, it was not a difficult decision to make. And I really didn’t feel like I had anything to lose, it was like my last way out, kind of. It was worth the risk and it worked out well, it’s been great.

Check out the entire interview at DummyMag.com.

Pitchfork caught up with Robyn for a Q&A, asking the Swedish pop singer about her plans to release three albums in the next year. The 30-year-old said:

I felt really happy and fortunate to be able to tour outside my home country for the last few years, but when I got into the studio it was hard to get back into that mode. So I starting thinking of alternative ways to work and make music. Everything is up in the air with the music industry at the moment and there’s no reason why you shouldn’t be able to do things differently– especially if you have your own label like me. That’s what it’s for. So I thought about how to cut down on these big breaks between studio time. It’s not a new idea– a lot of people put out less-planned releases that are not that long, sometimes they’re called EPs. But these releases are not EPs. They’re albums with enough songs to make them feel like real bodies of work. They are shorter than usual, but still closer to ten songs than five. For a while we were discussing naming them Some Songs and then Some More Songs [laughs] because everyone was like, “What is this thing you’re releasing?” But to me they’re albums.

Check out the entire interview here.