Kailash Kher Quotes

I want to try different things but, most importantly, always be true to my roots and keep it organic. I'm never going to leave bachata behind. I'm always going to be a bachatero first.

I'm not part of the cultural elite. I'm a down-home girl. Always have been, always will be.

The main thing is to keep it simple, keep it real, be honest and pull no stunts. You can't forget where you started and came from.

I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what I am.

I always want to bring emotion across in a straightforward way. I don't want to get histrionic when I'm singing. For me that's just not interesting; it goes too far down one road.

I thank my mum, dad, and home for keeping me in touch with my own country and my own land. I can be in the studio with Snoop Dogg or singing for Oprah, but I'm still me.

I just really like it when things are earnest.

I just sing what I feel in my heart. I ain't trying to prove nothing, and I don't think I ever did.

The things that are going to be in all my records, for as long as I'm making them, are going to go back to who I am and where I'm from and the lifestyle that I live and come from - and I don't know how I could ever get any of that close enough to pop to be considered a pop act.

I moved back to Tennessee in '86 or '87. That's when I worked with the Carter Family because I really wanted to understand my roots.

I wear my heart on my sleeve and tell you how it is.

Existing outside of irony is so hard.

I don't wear any masks. If I am happy, you get to see it; if I am angry, then you get to see that also.

I believe in the future of country music, but a future without roots is like a kite with no string.

I spent the first 16 years of my life in Scotland. My whole family is there. It's in my blood and informs my sense of humour, my point of view, the people I choose to spend time with, everything.

I want people to know about my story and where I came from.

I have had enough of an interesting life to not embellish it in any way.

I'm sticking true to my roots.

I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.

When I go home to Santa Cruz, I'm the same girl as when I grew up.

I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the room and find their mother sewing and pick up some scrap of bright wool, a feather, or a shred of chintz. I need a howl; a cry. When the storm crosses the marsh and sweeps over me where I lie in the ditch unregarded I need no words. Nothing neat. Nothing that comes down with all its feet on the floor. None of those resonances and lovely echoes that break and chime from nerve to nerve in our breasts making wild music, false phrases. I have done with phrases.

In real life, I don't fall in love with the guy who wines and dines me, I fall in love with the flaws and the humanity. When I see someone get embarrassed or when I see them wearing their heart on their sleeve, I want to see that in movies. I hate seeing the put-together people, and then it makes everyone think they're supposed to look like that. It's all a bunch of BS.

In simplicity there is truth.

I wasn't trying to be anything. I was just myself.

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.