Imelda May Quotes

I've always had horrible Valentine's Days.

Usually, I think you have most of your musical influences locked down by the time you're 16.

Even in high school, I went through a lot of relationship issues, and that's at the center of my music.

I have experienced heartbreak but not in a classical sense.

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

I definitely learned never to fall in love in high school because it just takes over your brain.

I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage.

A lot of people have been romantically in love with somebody who they feel wasn't appropriate to marry.

I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Sometimes we fall in love with somebody who will probably never love us, for reasons having nothing to do with us but with their own mindset, their chemistry.

Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by.

Breakups just hit you harder when you're younger. When I was a teenager, it felt like the most depressing thing in the world if a boy I was infatuated with didn't like me back!

After that I didn't listen to music as much because '70s music just wasn't... I remember all the songs, but it wasn't because I was into them, you know what I mean?

Like every other girl in the world, my most embarrassing moment had to do with a guy completely turning me down. His loss!

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

I was dumped at my senior prom - I was 18 and in love. We danced all night, then she got back together with her ex. It broke my heart.

The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.

I thought I was loved.

My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call.

I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don't know what that audience are into and I don't particularly like that kind of music.

I've been dumped hard. My heart has been broken and shattered, and I've also been on the other end of that too.

I have a whole iPod full of exceptionally bad music, truly awful stuff including a disproportionate number of one hit wonders from the early '80s and lots of hair bands. I find it utterly impossible to love a song until I know every single word, so listening to live music or new bands is pretty much out.

Jo left me a few months ago for 10 days. I get this note: I'll come back when the real Ronnie comes back.

I'd asked for things like the 'Footloose' soundtrack and Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' for my birthdays, but I remember walking what felt like miles to this cassette shop called The Warehouse to buy Paul Simon's 'Graceland,' U2's 'Joshua Tree' and a Roberta Flack album. I had pretty good taste.