A biography for KT Tunstallhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“I like that I have a boyish figure, because I love wearing men's suits.”
“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.”
“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.”
“But I'm pretty lucky with my voice. When I first started touring I went to see a woman to give me some coaching on how not to lose my voice. And she was just saying really your voice is a muscle so if you're using it all the time you should actually come back from tour with a stronger voice than you left with. And that's really how I find it.”
“Albums tend to dictate what they need. Every time I have made an album it sort of feels like it is decided for me how that album is going to sound; it is not really a cerebral decision where you sit down and decide that you are going to make an album that sounds like 'this.'”
“I've always been a huge fan of Beck.”
“My father passing really, in many ways, was a gift: It made me look at my own happiness and sense of self and realize that I wasn't happy. I had checked all these boxes and achieved all this stuff that I thought made you happy. And I was miserable.”
“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.”
“I've always loved the idea of 'Guilty Pleasures.'”
“I always try to travel as light as possible. I feel really embarrassed having loads of luggage.”
“I had a job for a year, working in a high-quality whiskey-and-wine shop.”
“I've got my roots in Northern Ireland - my biological father's side of the family were from Belfast.”
“I believe that the Universe is like a single organism, and we are all little nerve endings feeding our experiences back into a whole.”
“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.”
“I've never been one to indulge in out and out depression when it comes to songwriting.”
“The way I feel about how I look changes daily, but as I've got older, I feel more confident.”
“It's unacceptable to tour using non-environmentally friendly fuel when there are alternatives.”
“I've always felt at home in America. Obviously, there's down sides to everywhere - the politics of America can be hard to take but it's not great here either. I really love the country's landscape and I've travelled it many times.”
“If your parents only listen to jazz or folk, you're like one of those trees you see in botanic gardens that have wire frames on them - you grow into that shape, you follow it or you have to break away from it. But I didn't have influences to embrace or kick against - I also had no idea what anything was.”