Quotes By K. D. Lang

Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.

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

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

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.

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

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.

When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.

I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.

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

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.