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KT Tunstall Quotes
KT Tunstall Quotes
KT Tunstall
Scottish
Musician
Born:
Jun 23
,
1975
About
Because
Me
Music
Think
You
It's very addictive having a hit.
KT Tunstall
Addictive
Having
Very
Hit
I've always tried to avoid music being direct therapy, and I've always found there's a power when you write something that can have its own interpretation - although I'm not being intentionally evasive.
KT Tunstall
Music
You
Power
Own
Interpretation
Tried
Direct
Something
Write
Although
Always
Intentionally
Being
Avoid
Therapy
Evasive
Found
I used to take it much more to heart. Now I realise that negativity has almost everything to do with the person delivering it and very little to do with you yourself.
KT Tunstall
You
Heart
Yourself
Negativity
Everything
More
Take
Delivering
Almost
Almost Everything
Very
Person
Realise
Little
Much
Used
Now
I can play piano, classical flute, guitar, bass and I'm OK on drums.
KT Tunstall
Guitar
Bass
Flute
OK
I Can
Classical
Piano
Drums
Play
I like that I have a boyish figure, because I love wearing men's suits.
KT Tunstall
Love
Suits
Men
I Love
Wearing
Like
Because
Boyish
Figure
If I can be somewhere with sunshine and have bare feet and a book, I'm happy.
KT Tunstall
Happy
Book
Sunshine
Somewhere
I Can
Feet
Bare
Bare Feet
What was incredible about the Maldives was that the entire island we were on consisted of sand. There didn't seem to be any dirt. You could walk around for hours barefoot with your white trousers skimming the ground, and they'd still be pristine white.
KT Tunstall
You
Walk
Barefoot
White
Incredible
Entire
About
Seem
Dirt
Could
Trousers
Hours
Around
Island
Still
Pristine
Were
Any
Sand
Your
Ground
The topography of L.A. is fascinating.
KT Tunstall
Topography
Fascinating
Basically, my mum and dad bought me a CD player for my 14th birthday. They didn't really listen to music at all, but my dad had a couple of tapes that he'd listen to, like Tom Lehrer. My dad was a physicist and Tom Lehrer was like this really weird Harvard class professor, who was really cool because he was also a satirist and pianist.
KT Tunstall
Music
Birthday
Me
Class
CD
Harvard
Physicist
Pianist
Had
He
Bought
Weird
Like
Couple
Also
Because
Tapes
Listen
Really
Who
Cool
Tom
Dad
Satirist
Mum
Mum And Dad
Professor
Player
Basically
When my divorce came through, it was like being let out of a cage because I hadn't been true to myself before; I was being something that was expected of me.
KT Tunstall
Myself
Me
Before
Out
Something
Through
Divorce
Cage
True
Like
Because
Came
Been
Expected
Being
My first memories of life were Californian.
KT Tunstall
Life
Memories
First
Were
I've always loved the idea of 'Guilty Pleasures.'
KT Tunstall
Pleasures
Guilty
Idea
Always
Loved
My father passing really, in many ways, was a gift: It made me look at my own happiness and sense of self and realize that I wasn't happy. I had checked all these boxes and achieved all this stuff that I thought made you happy. And I was miserable.
KT Tunstall
Happiness
Me
You
Happy
Gift
Father
Thought
Made
Miserable
Own
Sense
Ways
My Own
Self
Had
Stuff
Checked
Look
Boxes
Passing
Achieved
Realize
Really
Many
When I tried to get a record deal, only one label wanted me. The rest said 'oh, we've already got a girl with a guitar.' Can you imagine them ever saying that to a guy?
KT Tunstall
Saying
Me
You
Guitar
Rest
Girl
Tried
I Tried
Record
Record Deal
Guy
Only
Deal
Said
Got
Label
Get
Oh
Wanted
Them
Ever
Imagine
I've always felt at home in America. Obviously, there's down sides to everywhere - the politics of America can be hard to take but it's not great here either. I really love the country's landscape and I've travelled it many times.
KT Tunstall
Love
Politics
Home
Great
Country
Down
Sides
Everywhere
Take
Obviously
Felt
Always
Times
America
Either
Really
Landscape
Hard
Many
Travelled
Here
I lived in L.A. for a year when I was four - my dad was doing a sabbatical at UCLA - so it always remained quite a familiar place.
KT Tunstall
Year
Sabbatical
Remained
Always
Doing
Familiar
UCLA
Quite
Place
Dad
Lived
Four
I guess if you make quality music then it has a longevity and it will find its place.
KT Tunstall
Music
You
Quality
Will
Guess
Find
Longevity
Make
Place
Then
My parents' concern has been one of my greatest assets - I needed something to kick against. If they'd supported me every step of the way I might not have had enough fire in my belly to get where I have. Then I think: was this whole thing reverse psychology, did you really go to those lengths?
KT Tunstall
Me
You
Parents
Fire
Every
Think
Every Step
Enough
Kick
I Think
Way
Those
Has-Been
Something
Had
Had Enough
Step
Supported
Concern
Greatest
Go
Reverse
Been
Get
Did
Where
Psychology
Against
Might
Then
Really
Whole
Assets
Thing
Belly
Needed
When you make an album, you have to decide how much you want to give away; you have to decide how much you want to open up. Because the more you open up the more rewarding it can be but the more dangerous it can be. If you really open up and it gets panned it's really painful.
KT Tunstall
You
Dangerous
Give
More
Open
Make
Because
How
How Much
Up
Gets
Rewarding
Want
Decide
Much
Really
Painful
Away
Album
You know, we were outdoorsy types, my folks, and one of the first tapes I got, a friend gave me a cassette tape of Ella Fitzgerald singing with the Count Basie orchestra. And it was the first time, really, that someone's voice had really spoken to me, and it was just so pure.
KT Tunstall
Time
Me
You
Pure
First
Singing
Gave
Types
Folks
Someone
Cassette
Voice
Count
Had
Spoken
Know
First Time
Got
Were
Tape
Tapes
Friend
Fitzgerald
Orchestra
Just
Really
Ella
Ella Fitzgerald
I'm not really that comfortable, to be honest, singing about my darkest moments.
KT Tunstall
Darkest
Singing
To Be Honest
About
Comfortable
Really
Moments
Honest
Music for me has always been a vent and has always been a great outlet.
KT Tunstall
Music
Great
Me
Outlet
Vent
Always
Been
I'm a huge fan of The Chemical Brothers and the Ninja Tune label and a lot of the stuff that they put out like DJ Shadow but I think, out of all of them, Leftism really just excited my musical brain in terms of the way that they mixed real instruments with dance tracks.
KT Tunstall
DJ
Dance
Think
Musical
I Think
Way
Ninja
Out
Brothers
Shadow
Excited
Put
Stuff
Like
Terms
Instruments
Tracks
Chemical
Real
Mixed
Brain
Lot
Huge
Label
Huge Fan
Just
Fan
Tune
Them
Really
Despite fashioning myself a very unconventional lifestyle with my music, I had ended up in a really conventional situation. I was also guilty of becoming a people-pleaser, which is absolutely exhausting and not a sustainable way of living. It can be so damaging to fall into that trap, especially in close relationships.
KT Tunstall
Music
Myself
Fall
Situation
Living
Relationships
Despite
Way
Guilty
Absolutely
Lifestyle
Had
Unconventional
Also
Becoming
Exhausting
Up
Very
Close
Ended
Sustainable
Conventional
Which
Really
Trap
Damaging
I really liked writing rhyming poems and plays.
KT Tunstall
Writing
Poems
Liked
Rhyming
Really
Plays
I'm a serial monogamist - I tend to dive in.
KT Tunstall
Dive
Tend
Serial
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