KT Tunstall Quotes

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KT Tunstall

Profession : Musician

Birth : June 23, 1975

Venice Beach is incredibly quiet at night: no streetlights, no traffic, hummingbirds in the garden, palm trees everywhere.

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My first memories of life were Californian.

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In Scotland, Dad grew courgettes which were the size of my leg. I'd step into the garden and it was like 'The Day of the Triffids.'

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I think it was Dad who gave me my nickname 'Katy Custard,' recognising my deep, positive and lasting relationship with it.

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When I went to university I survived on jacket potatoes and pasta for three years.

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It's very addictive having a hit.

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I've always loved the idea of 'Guilty Pleasures.'

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British music lovers in general are dreadfully concerned about being cool, but I'm quite happy to grab uncool by the horns at any opportunity.

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What I noticed about living by the sea when I moved to London was that it's really bad when you only have lots of other people to compare yourself to. I grew up relating to the land as well as other people.

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When you're in the city, all you see is people. It gets more competitive, people become more introverted.

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On tour with me, it's like fluffy-bunny land. Everyone loves every-one else.

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Don't let your parents telling you that you shouldn't do something stop you from doing it.

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There was an obvious display of blatant sexism when I couldn't get signed. They didn't say I was ugly. They didn't say that they didn't like the music. They said I was too old! At 26! So Badly Drawn Boy, Doves, Elbow, James Blunt - you can be a gnarly old beardy bloke with a bit of a paunch and that's all right?

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I'm a serial monogamist - I tend to dive in.

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I work better under pressure. I was the local badminton champion when I was a kid, and there was another girl who used to thrash me for the five days leading up to the tournament and then I would just nail her to the floor in the competition.

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My parents' concern has been one of my greatest assets - I needed something to kick against. If they'd supported me every step of the way I might not have had enough fire in my belly to get where I have. Then I think: was this whole thing reverse psychology, did you really go to those lengths?

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My dad's a physicist and had a key to the St Andrew's observatory, and we used to pop down to see Halley's Comet and Saturn and meteor showers.

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It feels like your subconscious can be way ahead of you, as a songwriter. You can write a song that you think is about one thing and months later you're playing it and thinking, hang on, this is completely informing where I am now.

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I've never been a confessional writer.

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My experience of being a singer and performer is there is something meditative and very positive about singing, just resonating the inside of your body.

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