A biography for Corinne Bailey Raehasn’t been written yet.
“My parents got divorced for the same reason that most people's parents get divorced: the relationship had stopped working. I was about 12 or 13.”
“I am engaged with the news, I vote, I write to my MP, I stand up for things that are important to me.”
“The Caribbean has had a big impact on me. It's very outdoorsy, people don't really spend a lot of time indoors. There's so much light and sunshine.”
“I didn't expect my popularity to be a mainstream thing, 'cause I'd only ever been an underground artist.”
“I won this poll thing in England about predictions, and it was all these journalists and reporters trying to say that I was going to be big in '06. My name was at the top of their list. I was like, are you sure you've got the right person?”
“On the first album, it was me and a producer in a basement going though hundreds of snare drum sounds to find the right one.”
“When you're in a relationship with someone, it's so much about tearing down the walls between you two that you sort of confuse what is you and what is them. When you lose them, you question: 'What is left of me?'”
“I find this western idea that ageing is wrong really distasteful. You should be happy that you look 50, you look 60, you've got to 70 - it should be an achievement.”
“I read someplace that when I was signed to EMI, they reeled in the 'hit-makers.' The presumption is that 'cause you're a young girl, black, smiley, with curly hair, you can't have written the songs. It totally winds me up.”
“Like a Star' has a very simple melody, and when you play it, it's only about three notes for ages, and it's quite boring. But when you hear the chords, the chords are sort of different than the melody, and it's pulling it around and making it mean something else.”
“I really enjoy touring and playing music to people.”
“We live in a capitalist society, so our power as people who consume is significant. I boycott unethical companies and avoid buying stuff made in sweatshops and stuff that will end up in landfills.”
“I used to plan a lot. But I've realized the vanity in that.”
“When Prince is into what you're doing, it's just surreal.”
“Letting my guard down, trusting that someone will look after me... I've found that hard to do.”
“I'm not some kind of preacher saying 'You have to have natural hair,' but for me it's easier.”
“I would love to one day see the rock churches in Ethiopia and learn about the history of Rastafari in the country, as well as see the amazing landscapes of Iceland.”
“Writing about relationships is political. The personal is political.”