K. D. Lang Quotes

I just think that when you've been singing for 30 years, which I have been, you just want to find different things you can do with your voice. It's a constant journey. It's not like any one album that you make is who you are. It just reflects that particular day.

I had no precise plan when I started 'Electronica,' but I think it has been a very positive journey for me.

I needed to explore my talent and versatility and see if I had another side to me, another sound.

It's exhilerating to be able to explore my own voice.

People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experimenting with pop music.

My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punches because everything was new to me.

I think every artist subconsciously wants to evolve themselves. Sometimes they get stuck in ruts because of pop culture, peer pressure, stuff like that. But what excites me most is exploring my own musical insights and expanding upon them.

I'm quite an eclectic musician.

Joining Modest Mouse was just consistent with what I used to do as a teenager: I followed where I thought I would make some interesting music.

When I first started making music, I didn't really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write songs. I didn't have a concept. I didn't think it through. I was just flailing around doing what comes naturally. It took me a really long time to step back and deal with what I was doing with any kind of perspective or self-awareness.

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

I always want people to expect the unexpected, to hear me in records that have nothing to do with bachata. 'Golden' is the golden opportunity for them to appreciate me on other records.

Yeah, I put out some goofy stuff. I had no idea who I was as an artist at all before 'Posse on Broadway.'

That's something I want to do: cover all sorts of genres to find the one I love most.

I never wanted to sound clean and pretty. In jazz, I felt I could sing these deep, husky lows if I want and then these really tiny laser highs if I want as well.

I want to explore all genres.

For 'Chapters', I decided to let go of my insecurities, found myself some talented R&B producers, and worked with them.

I never really had the chance to play the kind of music I wanted to play. It was always just classical. It had its limits. I play piano now and again in the new forms of music that I actually want to play, but at the time, it was something that I just kind of moved past.

I seek out hard things. I tried to imitate other singers. It was a self-discovery for me to move from imitating others to me growing to sing in my own voice. The opera was difficult and it felt like a personal conquest.

I feel like, for me as an artist, it takes me a while of living with the tracks and living with the body of work to realize what it's all about.

Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach into myself and accept myself.

I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories.

Growing up in a band is weird - you get stuck hanging on to what it is you think you are. But what I took into Depeche was that punk ethic, that you don't have to be accomplished to be a musician. If you've got ideas, you can do this.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.