Quotes By K. D. Lang

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 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.

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.

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 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.