A biography for Lisa Stansfieldhasn’t been written yet.
“Manchester has always been a massively innovative city, loads of great scientific findings have come from Manchester. The first computer in the world was there and took up a whole building. So Manchester has always been very innovative.”
“Having money hasn't made me any happier. There are some negatives associated with it too, like having to be away from home when you don't want to be.”
“It's like, if someone asks me to do something and it seems like a really exciting project, but I maybe really frightened about it, nine times out of then I'll say yes imminently because then I can worry after I've said yes!”
“I was happy to carry on without children because I was completely immersed in my work and my career. I only heard the clock ticking in my late 30s, and when my mother Marion died the year I turned 40 it hit me with such a force that we ended up having IVF, which turned out to be unsuccessful.”
“I've got a good imagination, so I can see someone arguing over a parking ticket and imagine they're getting a divorce or something.”
“I started to sing professionally when I was about 13 or 14.”
“A really happy kid. I would go off on my own a lot and live in my imagination. When I got my school report back it always said, 'Lisa should try a little harder because she always seems to be in a different world from everyone else.'”
“You don't hear that much about me being a white and singing soul music in England, but I get the feeling that in America it's really a big thing. It's like, 'God, look at the color of her skin.'”
“I suppose you have to be careful what you sing, because you might have to do it.”
“I go through phases with money. I'll spend it liberally and then I'll panic and won't spend anything.”
“I've always been very emotional when I sing.”
“The Manchester music scene was very male dominated.”
“Working class people vote Tory because they think it makes them look a bit posh.”
“For me, learning how to sing was just like learning how to speak.”
“I always remember when I first started out and first became a little bit famous, I went to a celebrity party. For me it was really intimidating.”
“It's quite amazing how obsessed everyone is by 'Strictly Come Dancing.' I don't watch it so I don't know anything about it.”
“I always really loved soul music but all my friends were into the new romantic scene. I'd go to new romantic clubs and then go home and listen to soul music. I was sort of ashamed of listening to disco and soul music!”
“Business people want things to be safe but that's rubbish to me. In music nothing should be safe.”
“I'd like to have more tolerance.”
“You can't have artistic freedom if you have to think about seven different aspects of your own job all the time. It must be very, very exhausting.”