Time & Perspective Quote by Neneh Cherry

There is a particular kind of swagger in a musician saying she has "absorbed" her life, as if experience were less something that happened to her than raw material she’s finally digested into sound. Neneh Cherry isn’t selling inspiration; she’s staking a claim on authorship. The line flips the usual pop-star narrative of endless output into a vow of deliberate emergence: the music doesn’t drop, it "unfolds" - slowly, organically, on her terms.

The deadline talk ("before the end of this year") reads like a conversation with the modern attention economy: fans want dates, labels want schedules, culture wants content. Cherry meets that pressure head-on, but she does it with a self-aware edge. "I know time flies" is both a nod to aging and a reminder that legacy is a clock you can hear ticking, especially for women in music who are too often treated as eras rather than ongoing artists.

Then she detonates the whole statement with "Even if it kills me". It’s melodramatic on purpose: part gallows humor, part battle cry, part confession of how punishing making work can be when you refuse to phone it in. The subtext is that the album isn’t just another release; it’s a completion ritual, a proof of life. She’s daring fate, deadlines, and her own exhaustion - and turning the threat into fuel.