K. D. Lang

“There are days when I still want to be able to do what I want when I want, but there's also something wonderful about being secure.”

“I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.”

“Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.”

“I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards.”

“The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what's happening up there.”

“You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.”

“It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.”

“I think I fall into a lot of cracks in terms of I'm too something. I'm too this, I'm too that. And my music has never really had a home. I've been this floating alternative. I'm too mainstream for alternative. I'm too alternative for mainstream. And I'm just kind of wandering.”

“My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.”

“There needn't be a distinction between your life and your music.”

“Television really has been my vehicle. I don't get played on the radio much, so I've relied on TV a lot.”

“Minimal is the word I'd use to describe how I live and dress, and it's also how I sing. I'm not a big fan of overemoting.”

“When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.”

“I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.”

“I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.”

“I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all.”

“I'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do - I'd like to carry on making records.”

“My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.”

“I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.”

“I don't sing anything that hurts my voice.”