Kate Nash Quotes

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Kate Nash

Profession : Musician

Birth : July 6, 1987

I've become aware of being in a very male-dominated industry where a door opens and it's like, 'Oh hello, it's 12 men and me. Again.'

Kate Nash

When I was young I was listening to the Spice Girls and Destiny's Child. I was singing 'Independent Woman' and 'Survivor,' and it was all about Girl Power and being with your friends. I don't think I was singing, 'Don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?'

Kate Nash

You have to be cynical because this is a business. Everyone is making money out of you.

Kate Nash

The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players are the most wonderful creatures.

Kate Nash

People have said I'm too fat to be a pop star.

Kate Nash

I come from a big Irish family who force-fed me as a kid, so not eating was never an option.

Kate Nash

On tour it's hard to be vegetarian, especially in Europe because vegetarianism is basically unheard of. They think you're either joking or mad.

Kate Nash

I didn't feel like I was allowed to be a songwriter. I thought I had to be a really intelligent lyricist, like a poet.

Kate Nash

One day when I was 14 I put together a makeshift CV and walked into this weird boutique in Pinner, near where I lived, to ask if they needed a Saturday assistant. They didn't, but the owner took me on anyway.

Kate Nash

I wouldn't mind working in restaurants again because you build up a relationship with the customers. I'm really inspired by the mundane - it's often the most ordinary-looking people who have the best stories - and you can watch diners and study their idiosyncrasies without them being aware of it.

Kate Nash

When you earn your own money you feel much better about yourself.

Kate Nash

I love punks!

Kate Nash

I first got into punk music at 17, The Adverts, just from being a bored teenager.

Kate Nash

I just wanna be an artist, like someone like Bjork and Kate Bush and Regina Spektor. These are people that have saved people, I think, by being what they are.

Kate Nash

A lot of young girls look up to me and it's amazing.

Kate Nash

I got £30 for my first gig, cash in hand.

Kate Nash

I'm worried about being pigeonholed as an artist, especially a female one, but I think, essentially, it's the music which people judge you by.

Kate Nash

I never do anything just to be crude or in your face.

Kate Nash

My mum's got morals and principles, and I've been brought up with those ideas and beliefs.

Kate Nash

As you get older, you start to realise negativity is really bad.

Kate Nash