A biography for Shania Twainhasn’t been written yet.
“I'm neither embarrassed of who I am, where I come from, what I've experienced, I'm not ashamed of it.”
“I really can't imagine not singing again.”
“Life unravels the way it does, and it has an effect on you, but you have to take responsibility for dealing with it.”
“One day, someone said to me, 'Do you want to go jump out of an airplane?' I felt like I had nothing to lose anymore, so I said, 'Why not?' And every day since then, I ask myself that question.”
“I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.”
“I have two fathers.”
“I'm not someone who is glamorous all the time.”
“It's very hard to concentrate when your stomach's rumbling.”
“Now that I have and I'm not a have-not, I've learned how important it is to maintain humility.”
“The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you.”
“You can't just turn love on and off.”
“I feel like in a way I'm starting over, with everything.”
“Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.”
“Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.”
“I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.”
“Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.”
“Dysphonia is not a singing problem. It's a voice box issue in the muscle on the voice, very different from having a nodule on the vocal cords, which I've never had. I'm lucky that I've never had that. It needs a long renewal time, and even today, I am still addressing it.”
“I didn't have a choice growing up but to be more insecure because others had more.”
“My fears and anxieties throughout my whole life have been slowly squeezing my voice.”
“Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.”