KT Tunstall Quotes

Don't let what others think or say get in your way; their actions reflect on them, not you.

It's disheartening to read the really negative stuff, but at the same time, I know who I am, and I'm comfortable with myself.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

Am I completely indifferent to criticism? No, not at all. But I know who I am and I have learned to respect and care for who I am.

I don't care about people kissing my ass or telling me how great I am. I don't really give a damn. I read the bad stuff a whole lot more than I read the good stuff. I read that because there are always going to be critics who are going to say how good you aren't.

There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well.

We all seek approval, and our mother's seal is usually the most important. The nitty gritty is that we have to accept ourselves, even if it is just to be ready for the next cut-down. Mom's blessing or not.

I'm not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

You know, I always think of myself as sort of ready for every criticism.

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don't know you think.

At the end of the day it's going to hurt your feelings if someone says something mean about you, but I've learned to take a step back and ask myself if it's really going to affect me, if this person who I'm never going to know or meet doesn't like me - and it doesn't.

It really doesn't matter to me what people say about me anymore.

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

I don't judge myself by what someone says.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

You know, I think I'm a stronger person for realizing that you can't make everybody love you.

There are a lot of people who give you the message that maybe you are not good enough, and the best thing you can do for yourself is to block out all of that noise.

I don't think I was a failure. I just wasn't a success.

Sometimes it used to hurt so bad when people used to say stuff about me. It still does. But I'm at a level now that I'm like, 'I ain't surprised that they said this or that about me.'

It is hurtful to read things which are not true. I am learning to focus only on my work and not pay heed to any negativity.

There's always going to be someone who doesn't like you, but what can they do?

People and what they say don't bother me like they used to. When I was younger, I really couldn't take it because I couldn't understand where the criticism was coming from.

If a person doesn't like me or doesn't like my game, OK, that's how they feel. Can't be upset with it.

I've learned since 'Drip or Drown' that no one should care what people think. I learned that, after years of comments, it really doesn't matter.