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KT Tunstall

Profession : Musician

Birth : June 23, 1975

Music for me has always been a vent and has always been a great outlet.

KT Tunstall

I have always been a great fan of albums that are cathartic and that you can listen to them together and you can relate to them as a group of people or as friends.

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When you make an album, you have to decide how much you want to give away; you have to decide how much you want to open up. Because the more you open up the more rewarding it can be but the more dangerous it can be. If you really open up and it gets panned it's really painful.

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I was very into tribal techno and used to go and really lose myself in great dance music.

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Like a lot of young people growing up in the middle of nowhere, I was desperate to leave my small town behind, but music reconnected me to my roots.

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I get so frustrated with all these so-called singer-songwriters coming out and they don't write!

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I can do the vocal acrobatics but I really try not to. I've always been drawn to singers who sing it like it is, pure, straight down the line: Ella Fitzgerald, Patti Smith, Carole King. Simplicity is really important to me.

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It strikes me as very odd for someone to think, 'You know what, if I put on a bikini, I may shift some more records,' but it happens. If people are comfortable with that, fine, but it's not something that would ever cross my mind.

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I write songs, I play a guitar and that's it.

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I didn't find fame particularly difficult, partly because I'm proud to be able to say I'm the most unrecognisable face in pop.

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Sales have never been a source of joy for me in terms of my music. It's really about who's turning up at your shows, what people are saying about it.

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I guess if you make quality music then it has a longevity and it will find its place.

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I'm shocked at how much I can talk about myself.

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It's a shame that when you've actually lived some life and have something to write about, they're saying you're too old to come out and play it.

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I know it sounds weird, but the kind of music I write isn't the kind of music that I listen to, which is quite underground, left-of-centre stuff like PJ Harvey and Tom Waits.

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Touring can get really hard if you're not hitting some fashionable zeitgeist.

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When I tried to get a record deal, only one label wanted me. The rest said 'oh, we've already got a girl with a guitar.' Can you imagine them ever saying that to a guy?

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I used to take it much more to heart. Now I realise that negativity has almost everything to do with the person delivering it and very little to do with you yourself.

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I believe that the Universe is like a single organism, and we are all little nerve endings feeding our experiences back into a whole.

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I often talk too much and don't listen enough.

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