K.d. Lang Quotes

I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.

I'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do - I'd like to carry on making records.

I think I was a singer before I came out of the womb. I also think that the way you live your life, and the choices you make parallel what doors open up for you.

I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.

I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.

Even through the darkest phase
Be it thick or thin
Always someone marches brave
Here beneath my skin

You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.

It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.

If you knew how meat was made, you'd probably lose your lunch.

I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all.

My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.

I think I have allowed my voice to experiment with the different genres. And I think that I have just really enjoyed the journey of getting to know my voice and seeing what it's capable of, what it's not capable of.

I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

And I'm not even just talking artists, every single person in this nation has the right to be themselves, live life go team go. I love you Canada, thank you so much.

I'm also alternative because of Canada - there's something romantic about being Canadian. We're a relatively unpopulated, somewhat civilized, and clean and resourceful country. I always push the fact that I'm Canadian.

I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.

I think that the older I get and the more comfortable I get with myself, the more I realize that art is about relinquishing control of your emotions and being vulnerable and innocent.

I certainly fall in love with artists. I think that's probably the aspiration of an artist, to make a listener empathize so deeply that they do fall in love with you.

I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.

As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it.

I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.

Television really has been my vehicle. I don't get played on the radio much, so I've relied on TV a lot.

Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.

My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.

I never, my producer never, we never let myself just sing. We were always trying to get the perfect vocal.

Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.

I don't sing anything that hurts my voice.

I don't consider my homosexuality a political thing. I consider it a sexual and spiritual thing. I only started going to political rallies to meet women.

There are days when I still want to be able to do what I want when I want, but there's also something wonderful about being secure.

I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.

"Spirituality comes from questioning everything but at the same time accepting everything. You can even be spiritual watching TV. When the ad comes on and says, "Don't hate me because I am beautiful," question that."

The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.

Country music was a part of my life. Now it isn't. We had a good relationship, really, but we wanted each other at arm's length. The people in Nashville didn't want to be responsible for my looks or my actions. But they sure did like the listeners I brought.

To dance is human, to polka is divine.