KT Tunstall Quotes

I don't think I'd get caught up in the crazy side of the music industry because it's just not in my nature.

Today, you're either very big or you're playing stadiums or you're not playing anymore. You're either popular where everybody will go to a 20,000 seat arena to see you or they won't go to see you at all.

The entertainment industry and my place in it is a place where you burn brightly for as long as you can.

Coachella is a magnet for music-biz luminaries such as Tara Reid, Paris Hilton, and Cameron Diaz.

I won because I was the people's favorite dancer, and that's what I work with these Idols on. There have been 1,000 singers before you that are as good or better than you, but you're not trying to be the best singer ever. You're trying to be the people's favorite singer.

In Hollywood, you grow up quick.

We're entertainers, while people want us to be gods.

I am not this big celebrity, but it gets really crazy. You have to go through the nuts of blowing up, in a sense, and then figuring out how to live your life with that.

I loved being a rock and roll star, but it wasn't what I wanted in life.

The ultimate revenge is being on Top Of The Pops.

I think it's really hard being in a boy band. There's a lot of dynamics.

If it turns out to be a hit, well, good luck dealing with fame. And if it's not a hit and you can still survive and make music you believe in, well, then you're truly blessed. I think that's where we are now.

When I play discos in Belfast or freshers' week in Oxford, there are 1,800 kids dressed as me. It's odd, it's funny, and it pays really well.

I like Lady Gaga!

You can tell when you're in a hit.

I didn't come to Hollywood to get on magazine covers or start my Porsche collection or to enjoy that kind of lifestyle, to go to the right parties and meet the right people.

I was very blessed with 'N Sync. It was a big success and it was a lot of fun.

I'm not trying to be a celebrity, Justin Timberlake kinda guy.

The rock star stuff never came up for us. The Band was never attacked by groupies before, during or after any show that we ever played.

I didn't realize what an impact having a No. 1 single would have. It connects me with people of different ages, and I get to travel all over the world.

I'm just a guy who happens to work in public from time to time. I've built a reputation as an established comic, not as a celebrity - a celebrity is someone who is famous but doesn't do anything.

People get distracted by box-office figures and take jobs because they think it will advance their careers.

If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it... and the minute it takes off, I'm not gonna be home for a while.

It will shock many - I've lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star.