KT Tunstall Quotes

I have some great stories. But I am also very human, and I suffered an awful lot.

I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently.

I've written several deeply personal songs this year, which I really love. Some of them came out of intense sadness. This has been an extremely difficult year for me.

Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.

The most confronting thing you can do is talk about your feelings and open yourself up.

It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more, and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer all the time. I don't want to be the queen of pain.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

You never know what battles people fight.

There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.

Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

Once I wrote 'Atmosphere,' I thought, 'This is my story; it's me and my life and what I've gone through to get to where I am.' I'm not the best singer, but still. All of my albums are personal, but putting myself out there and singing is one more thing that makes me vulnerable - one more thing that people can fire shots at.

I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It's cleansing.

I tell people that we must have the courage to share what we feel, but no one follows me.

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is.

Seeing what happens when you rip yourself open is what your job is all about.

They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad... Sometimes it feels a little raw to be putting so much of myself out there.

We all have our inner demons.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

If I write when I'm low, it will be a dark song, but I don't care. I want to be honest with myself at all times.

Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know?

Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not.

Poetry takes courage because you have to face things and you try to articulate how you feel.

I tend to find characters who lack vulnerability dull.

I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.'

I'm good at playing the emotionally strangled person. The woman who is in the worst place in her life. That's me!