Robyn was not accepted in her home country

The Scandinavian singer found it difficult to be accepted in her home country and knew she would have to learn not to care what people thought in order to succeed.

She said: "There is a sense of isolation there. There's this idea you're an oddball, far up at the top of the world, where no one cares about you and this manifests itself in two ways.

"Either you listen to people telling you not to dream, and accept that you're an outsider, or you just go against them and make your oddness a virtue."

Robyn also admitted she feels "blessed" by the success of 'Every Heartbeat' - which topped the UK charts in 2007 - because it was so unexpected.



Speaking to the Guardian newspaper, she said: "Everyone had said for years that my music wasn't working, it was too weird and not commercial enough so to come to a country I'd never really been to before and have a song go to number one without really working for it, it says something about the power of the song and what people really want.

"I felt very blessed by its success but it felt like a validation too."