Quotes By K. D. Lang

Television really has been my vehicle. I don't get played on the radio much, so I've relied on TV a lot.

When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.

I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all.

The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.

I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.

I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.

I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.

If you knew how meat was made, you'd probably lose your lunch.

I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.

Minimal is the word I'd use to describe how I live and dress, and it's also how I sing. I'm not a big fan of overemoting.

I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.

I never, my producer never, we never let myself just sing. We were always trying to get the perfect vocal.

I'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do - I'd like to carry on making records.

We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.

I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.

You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.

I just really allowed my muse to be my guide and I just go with whatever I'm feeling.

I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards.

Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.

I think I fall into a lot of cracks in terms of I'm too something. I'm too this, I'm too that. And my music has never really had a home. I've been this floating alternative. I'm too mainstream for alternative. I'm too alternative for mainstream. And I'm just kind of wandering.

I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.

I don't sing anything that hurts my voice.

I sort of believe that my voice was preordained; I'm a Buddhist who believes in reincarnation so I think that my voice is a few lifetimes old.

I never get tired of exploring Americana or country music, and I always have a little bit of a crooner in me that never seems to go away.

My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.

There needn't be a distinction between your life and your music.

I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.

As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it.

I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.