KT Tunstall Quotes

I realised that to compare your insides with other people's outsides leads to unhappiness.

I don't make much of comparisons in general, it's not how I think people construct themselves and I don't think it's a healthy way of dealing with your own reality.

Everyone is their own person. I just worry about myself and surround myself with good people who keep me grounded and focused on what matters.

I'm interested in how we understand ourselves in our relatioships and how we define ourselves.

If you go too far down the rabbit hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are.

It is human defect — to try to know oneself by the self of another.

But this show reminds me that there are other aspects to me besides the fact that I'm a funny chick.

For me, life isn't about being recognized or having everyone know who I am. That's not why I'm here. To me, my foundation is the most important thing I do or have ever done. That's what my life is about.

It's easy to forget who you are.

I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.

I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this.

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

You must first get along with yourself before you can get along with others.

Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.

When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.

What you are comes to you.

I think people change, but the media, they never allowed me to change. They never allowed me to be a better person.

A solid sense of self will help a person to lead a full and happy life.

Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title.

Intelligent, successful, attractive people can be intimidating. They force us to hold a mirror to ourselves; we can be disappointed, jealous or inspired toward personal growth.

I know who I am and what I do.

There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.