KT Tunstall Quotes

I wanted very badly to be a mum. I'm a very maternal person. But at the point that I met Emilio I was focusing on a career. I never would have thought that I would get married at 21 and much less be a mum by 23.

I didn't want to get married, and I didn't want kids - I knew I wanted to act.

A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.

My thirties merged into my forties, and I sort of gradually realised that I don't really want children. Now I'm glad I don't have them. Part of that is because I have my books.

I never felt that my life was not complete without a child. I don't know if that, as a younger man, I'd have had full appreciation for it.

I always thought, as I was growing up, that I'd be married with children. That hasn't happened.

I just went along for the ride. It was a God-given gift. It is. So you can't say well, you wasted your life because you spent all of it acting, but I think gosh, I've never been to China, I've never been to Japan. I've never been to Yellowstone Park.

I don't have any regrets about not having had children. What's the point? It's just something else to beat yourself up over.

It was an odd coincidence that my career took off the same decade as having babies. I often wished it had been different, that I had my big career bump in my thirties and my babies in my forties or vice versa.

My mum's always on at me to have children and blames 'that stupid stage thing you do' for me not already having a family.

I didn't wake up one day and think, 'I'm not going to have children.' My mother was a housewife and brought up three children, so I just thought it would happen.

My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now.

I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know that sounds selfish to a lot of people and I don't know if what I'm doing is the right thing. But that's the way I'm doing it.

Getting married and settling down isn't the most important thing in my life.

I gave myself until I turned 25 to make it. And if it didn't happen, I thought I'd just try to find a nice husband.

Women are supposed to want to settle down and have a family. That's not for me.

When you hit 30, it's that time of self-reflection. Some people are a success. Some people feel like they haven't achieved what they wanted to. Some people are married, some have kids, some are still single.

I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.

I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.

Nobody wants you to stop, obviously because you're a moneymaking machine. But you have to make the decision and you have to move forward. So I took time off to have babies and do all that.

I never had a time line for my life. I didn't say I wanted to be married at 28 and have three kids by the time I was 32.

Turning 60 was not a happy time. I didn't think 'I'm falling apart,' but I did re-examine my priorities.

I won't apologize for choosing my career over kids.

I feel like I was 30 when I was 17, and I decided to get married and have a baby.

I'd been out to a lot of people since 19. I wish to God it had happened then. I don't think I would have the same career - my ego might not have been satisfied in some areas - but I think I would have been a happier man.