A biography for Lisa Stansfieldhasn’t been written yet.
“If there's one thing I wish I'd done differently it would be to have invested money in property.”
“Because everyone has love or wants love there are always problems. And if you don't have problems, you're probably leading a boring life.”
“I think we all suffer the same pain, all feel the same happiness, and we all have the same emotions within us.”
“You know, Rochdale is a really nice place, but it's not the most interesting place on the planet.”
“Love's been here from the beginning of time, and life would be very boring without it.”
“Deeper' feels like we did when we made the first few albums. It's got that excitement. It felt like a voyage of discovery.”
“Falling in love is an absolutely beautiful thing to go through, and why people shouldn't talk about it is beyond me.”
“I think women were just accepted more as songwriters when they sat on a stool with a guitar and had scruffy hair. It was quite insulting really, because it was like saying that if you're pretty and slim and glamorous there's no way anything could be going on between your ears, you just like doing your makeup.”
“I like to tinkle at my piano when I'm working out a new song - I just put my fingers down and see what comes out.”
“When I make an album I love to spend a long time making it and put my heart and soul into it.”
“I absolutely loved it in Ireland.”
“I've always been political but I don't like to bring it into my work any more because I think it limits me.”
“I was really skinny and I had greasy hair and I was knock-kneed. There's something still in me that's like that, and I catch myself, you know when you're walking or something, and you think, 'Oh no, you're still that drippy person.'”
“She used to drive me to clubs for engagements and when I was 16 I got a job presenting a TV show in Newcastle. My mum didn't really like driving, but she carried on. Once I remember we got stuck in a snow storm, but she carried on to get me there in time. She was an amazing, incredible person.”
“I really don't have an interest in it and people think I'm a freak because I'm not obsessed by 'Strictly Come Dancing' but it just doesn't appeal to me. I'm really sorry but I can't get into it. You get treated like a complete pariah if you don't like things like that!”
“That was one thing about my life and everything I've done really, it's like I've been on a diving board scared out of my life and someone just keeps pushing me!”
“For a sore throat I take arnica, just a tiny pill dissolved under my tongue. And because your throat is like a muscle, I keep mine warm drinking herbal teas, usually camomile.”
“People come up to me and sing, 'Been around the world and I-I-I-I... ' all the time.”
“I do admire a lot of artists now who are completely multi-faceted - they're doing seven different jobs all at once and it doesn't seem to faze them whatsoever. It just astonishes me completely and I have nothing but admiration for them.”
“I've always said that when people start saying, 'Oh my God, why doesn't this woman put down her bagpipes?' then I will. I just don't ever want to become like Cliff Richard.”