Kim Wilde Quotes

You can't close your eyes to the lies perpetrated by dangerous fools / 'cos they're handing out rules

Performing, I can take it or leave it. Horticulture is far more challenging. I'm absolutely fascinated by it.

I'd got married and wanted to have kids, so had kids, brought them up, did other things, and slowly got back into music. And it feels great, having one foot in the present, writing and covering interesting songs, and having one foot in the past.

When I was 15, I was naive, looked like a grey mouse and felt second choice.

Sex does not exist for me at all. I haven't had a boyfriend for a long time. There were only three or four in my life up until now anyway.

My father has taught me all the tricks of the boys at an early age, which has made me very careful.

Careers don't seem to be built up in the same way as they were in the 80s.

You can spend your life competing in a world that talks too loud / You can lose your own direction getting lost among the crowd / Confusion - is it any wonder that the road ahead's not clear / Well you can try too hard to find it now I realise it's here

My whole career was launched in such sort of poptastic style with 'Kids In America', and I liked - and like - being poptastic. Songs big on melody, high on energy, lots of attitude ... what's wrong with that?

Snap your fingers and somebody runs / You don't care how they feel just as long as they come / Got your head in the stars now you've come this far / Just who do you think you are?

People want performers, personality and drama, and you got that in the .

In the day I can smile though I wanna die / Hold on, hold on / I can keep it together for a little while / and be strong, so strong / But when the sun goes down and I'm all alone / I haven't the strength to fight / That's when my tears give in to the night

Is our time up and on to the next fire / Got my fingers burnt and cut into the wire.

Gardening is not something to get on your high horse about or be overwhelmed by. Either you enjoy it or you don't.

I want to conquer the world and it seems like my own family is putting a stop to that.

You're full of insecurities in your 20s - most of the time your heart's being broken, you're having a difficult time finding out who the hell you are, and I was trying to do that in the full glare of the public.

My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.

Being blonde now doesn't mean Marilyn Monroe vulnerability. Blonde in the Eighties means being in control.

I got to show off in front of my husband, who married me as I was stepping out of the business, so he had no idea that I could strut my stuff on the stage.

The record company really pissed me off when they told me to lose weight. I couldn't be bothered with looking a certain way. So I left the business. I don't regret it.

I was very, very fortunate. I knew that. I've always known that.

I signed up for the musical Tommy in the West End, where I met my husband.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.

I do know what my family has done for me, but they do need to give me some space to let me be myself. There would be some things I would handle differently.

They're still building and testing / But what can we do / Condemning the seas and the land and the trees to a tomb

I'm spending nights just dreaming / And playing the music loud / They're banging on the ceiling / They're praying that I'll soon be out.

The big labels have less of a stranglehold on artists and how they record and where they go.