3621 quotes by scottish authors for you to enjoy

I was a child badminton wizard. KT Tunstall

Badminton Wizard Child

Use Creme de la Mer balm when your skin gets dry on a plane. You can put it on your cheeks to give your face a bit of a glow after you land. KT Tunstall

You Face Skin Bit Give Put Cheeks Dry Glow Balm La Gets After Land Plane Use Your

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

Venice Beach is incredibly quiet at night: no streetlights, no traffic, hummingbirds in the garden, palm trees everywhere. KT Tunstall

Garden Trees Incredibly Everywhere Beach Venice Traffic Quiet Palm Night

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

It strikes me as very odd for someone to think, 'You know what, if I put on a bikini, I may shift some more records,' but it happens. If people are comfortable with that, fine, but it's not something that would ever cross my mind. KT Tunstall

Me You People Mind Think Strikes Would Fine Some Cross Someone Something More Records Put Know Comfortable Odd Shift Very What If May Happens Bikini Ever

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

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

I follow the Bulletproof diet - it is based on grass-fed steak, vegetables, no carbs and a lot of butter. KT Tunstall

Vegetables Follow Steak Bulletproof Lot Diet Based Carbs Butter

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 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

Skiing fast feels like complete freedom to me. KT Tunstall

Freedom Me Complete Complete Freedom Feels Like Skiing Fast

I joined a drama group when I was eight. It was the first time I'd made the connection with an audience. KT Tunstall

Time Made First Group Drama Joined First Time Audience Eight Connection

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'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

I'm a serial monogamist - I tend to dive in. KT Tunstall

Dive Tend Serial

I can do the vocal acrobatics but I really try not to. I've always been drawn to singers who sing it like it is, pure, straight down the line: Ella Fitzgerald, Patti Smith, Carole King. Simplicity is really important to me. KT Tunstall

Me Simplicity Try Pure King Important Down I Can Drawn Vocal Like Sing Singers Smith Always Line Been Fitzgerald Patti Smith Straight Really Who Ella Ella Fitzgerald

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'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

Quotes by scottish authors