Imelda May Quotes

… gumming the bullet

I'm never sure one is exactly ready. You jump in, with both feet, into a very big fish pond.

My brother said 'I want to start acting,' and me and my sister just said, 'Oh we'll try it, we'll see.' It was just one of those things - we were just like, 'Oh, we'll see what happens.'

You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.

We will not know unless we begin.

Normally when we go in and write the songs we write, we think about doing a cover, but never a covers record. That would be, for us, a concept. We don't want to have a concept!

When it gets to this point, it's just hard to pull the trigger.

Fortunately, many people also enjoy a stand-alone as a sample of something new, like trying the special at a favourite restaurant one night instead of going for the usual.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.

But you have to do what you dream of doing even while you're afraid.

I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.

If you want to experiment, do something temporary.

For lack of any clearer idea, I just started acting one day. It had been in the back of my head for a while, but I think in some ways I was afraid to do it, and finally I just stepped up.

It's better to act and to regret / Than to regret not to have acted

When you start out somewhere, you've got to get your feet wet. You got to find your place.

In the end, you have to just pull the trigger. Trust the car, trust the brakes, just go.

I got to the stage where I physically couldn't carry on unless I gave comedy a go: it was necessity.

If I'm going for a shot, then I've just resolved to go for it and not think too much about it.

You have to say, 'We think it's going to work. Let's go with it.' Either you're going to kill the world, or you're going to fall on your rear end.

I think we should let our guards down a little bit more.

Sometimes in football you have to take risks.

I have a song called 'Training Wheels,' and it's about being in love with someone and taking it to the next level by taking off the training wheels.

I came to New York with two bags, my guitar and my laptop. I set my stuff down and immediately ran to an audition.

With my first album it was a little bit like I was practicing.

When I left Manchester I just took that as a challenge - to try to prove people wrong. And when you do, there is no better feeling than that. I knew in my gut it was the right time to move and I just believed.