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KT Tunstall

Profession : Musician

Birth : June 23, 1975

Basically, my mum and dad bought me a CD player for my 14th birthday. They didn't really listen to music at all, but my dad had a couple of tapes that he'd listen to, like Tom Lehrer. My dad was a physicist and Tom Lehrer was like this really weird Harvard class professor, who was really cool because he was also a satirist and pianist.

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If I can be somewhere with sunshine and have bare feet and a book, I'm happy.

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I always thought I had a face like the moon, because I had really chubby cheeks when I was a kid, right up until my mid-20s. My face changed in my later 20s and again in my mid-30s.

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The only thing I know about being Asian is that my hair is black and my eyelashes are straight and I have strange eyebrows.

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I'm not image-obsessed.

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I'm not really that comfortable, to be honest, singing about my darkest moments.

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I would never pigeon hole myself stylistically because I just don't know what I am going to want to do next.

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Politics for me is when I feel a personal engagement between people: I don't trust politicians.

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My father had Parkinson's, though he actually died following a bicycle accident.

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I grew up thinking, 'You go to university, you get your degree, you get a job, you get married and then you have a family.' But when I got to the point in my life where I had all those things, and was looking to start a family, I was miserable. I realised I didn't want kids.

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Life is about embracing the things that make you different, which is often an uncomfortable thing to do.

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Despite fashioning myself a very unconventional lifestyle with my music, I had ended up in a really conventional situation. I was also guilty of becoming a people-pleaser, which is absolutely exhausting and not a sustainable way of living. It can be so damaging to fall into that trap, especially in close relationships.

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When my divorce came through, it was like being let out of a cage because I hadn't been true to myself before; I was being something that was expected of me.

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Well, I was a real late-comer to listen to music, actually, because my parents - first of all, my parents weren't big music fans. They didn't listen to music. We didn't really listen to stuff in the house.

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You know, we were outdoorsy types, my folks, and one of the first tapes I got, a friend gave me a cassette tape of Ella Fitzgerald singing with the Count Basie orchestra. And it was the first time, really, that someone's voice had really spoken to me, and it was just so pure.

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I was adopted. I was born in Edinburgh, and adopted when I was about two weeks old. And it's a good thing, I think, really, that back then, in '75 when I was born, you were really given a lot more information than you're given now when you're adopted. And you know, you can access that information when you're older.

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The way I feel about how I look changes daily, but as I've got older, I feel more confident.

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I would be happy to live in a world with no mirrors, but at the same time, it's great to look good on stage because you feel you're offering more than just the music.

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I lived in L.A. for a year when I was four - my dad was doing a sabbatical at UCLA - so it always remained quite a familiar place.

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The topography of L.A. is fascinating.

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