KT Tunstall Quotes

The end of bad news is always good news.

If I write a sad song, at the end it's gotta be like, 'Dude, things are looking up!'

I think that's a responsibility I have, to not leave the listener with complete dread or depressing, dark thoughts, but to leave a little door open so that you can dance your way out if you want to.

My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

I think there will be more smiles when the smoke clears.

The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times.

I've never been a depressive, but I felt quite close to the edge at times. But you never know what's around the corner. Mercifully, what's around the corner is joy.

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don't want my songs to make people sad. It's very important for me that all my songs have some kind of hope or light.

I like to write from a slightly sad or complicated place. But with a sense of hope and happiness at the same time.

However dark our lot may be, there is light enough on the other side of the cloud.

Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that.

I'm just trying to say that it should reassure us that the inevitable traumas of being human do end up producing some good. Otherwise, the human condition is overwhelmingly depressing.

I've always been an optimistic guy, to tell you the truth.

When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.

My tag line for 'Silver Linings' is this: It's about a man who thinks his life is a movie produced by God.

I'm a generally optimistic person.

If today was half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.

Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think.

Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation.

It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It's an upper. We have enough downers in the world.