Alison Moyet Quotes

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Alison Moyet

Profession : Musician

Birth : June 18, 1961

I was writing and I have three kids. I was occupying my time with them but it was difficult.

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I have never truly applied myself. Lots of things have come too easily to me and at too high a level.

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Psychologically, I'll always be a fat girl because that's what my character is built on. I always got a buzz out of people telling me I was ugly. I went out of my way to un-beautify myself. I didn't want anyone's approval.

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I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training.

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I was socially awkward for many years. I stuttered, stammered, talked rubbish. I never take up invites to parties, and I've been invited to very glamorous things, but I never go.

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My soul desires a pre-industrial world, and since I can't have that, I don't really care for anything material.

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When you make a lot of money for a record company, they don't want you to evolve. Growing older, you naturally do.

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I love being middle-aged in general. I'm more at peace with myself now. I still have tormented times, but they are few and far between. You don't feel you have to be the centre of your world when you get older. Becoming a mother had been a turning point which stopped me from being the centre of my world.

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When you find yourself on stage singing and you are embarrassed about what you are singing in front of your peers, then you have to think about your priorities.

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My strength as a singer is my versatility. I find it really frustrating when I'm only expected to show off. The music industry is awash with female acrobats. What happens to the song, and treating it for its sake and not as an ego example?

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There has always been a feeling with people that they love my singing but not always the choice of material.

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There are very few record companies who will entertain a middle-aged woman coming to them with original material.

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My big chip is that I never had an education. I wanted my children to get one so they didn't fall into the same trap as me.

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I was always an odd girl; I managed to alienate a lot of people. I felt like a square peg in a round hole in the music industry and created a lot of neurosis for myself.

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The thing with me is, I'm both untidy and I hate mess. But I'm not untidy in communal spaces, like living rooms. My bedroom is havoc.

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Becoming famous is a really shocking thing, especially when you don't have aspirations to it. It got to the point where I would try and avoid making eye contact with anyone. It was freaky, and it just happened overnight. I couldn't handle it.

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Yazoo was Vince's sound ultimately. At the time Vince and I got together he had only recorded one album with Depeche and Depeche were to go on to greater things.

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I just find P.J. Harvey so mesmerising to watch because she remains unfathomable. She is the kind of woman who makes you rue the day you weren't born her. She always seems to be the cat that walks alone, and you don't feel you are supposed to know her.

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I wasn't good at being affable. You get beyond that and realise the attraction in any human being has more to do with what they give to someone rather than just being face candy.

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It's really irrelevant, but I wouldn't want to be stick thin. It's better to have bit of fat on your face when you get older.

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