KT Tunstall
singer-songwriter, composer, singer, pianist, guitarist, recording artist, film director
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All Quotes by KT Tunstall
“I'd love to go to Easter Island, Hawaii, Iceland and Antarctica.”
“Basically, my mum and dad bought me a CD player for my 14th birthday. They didn't really listen to music at all, but my dad had a couple of tapes that he'd listen to, like Tom Lehrer. My dad was a physicist and Tom Lehrer was like this really weird Harvard class professor, who was really cool because he was also a satirist and pianist.”
“"Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" is inspired by old blues, Nashville psycho hillbillies & hazy memories. It tells the story of finding yourself lost on your path, and a choice has to be made. It's about gambling, fate, listening to your heart, and having the strength to fight the darkness that's always willing to carry you off.”
“I went down to London with the idea that I was going to do vocals over this crazy, crazy trip-hop digital beat. Within two or three months, I heard Hunky Dory by David Bowie and that changed me in one way, and I realized what I actually wanted was to have an E Street Band — individuals, not session musicians.”
“It's lovely to get to say hello to people you've always admired from afar, but the fun really starts out front with people going commando whilst wearing daring mud suits.”
“I had that Paul McKenna come up to me once and he said, 'I love that song of yours about bicycles.' So I said to McKenna, 'And I loved the stunt you did in that glass box above the Thames.'”
“Many good things come from the left! [at the House of Blues on August 12th, 2008, while instructing the crowd to do a 'side-wave.']”
“Over the sea and far away Waiting to change...”
“Well my heart knows me better than i know myself So I'm gonna let it do all the talking.”
“I can feel everything you do Coz I am me, the universe and you.”
“When you're on your own I am me, the universe and you.”
“Her face is a map of the worldShe holds you captivated in her palm.”
“Suddenly I see (Suddenly I see)Why the hell it means so much to me.”
“I grew up knowing I could have had a million different lives. It makes your life mysterious and your imagination go wild.”
“My songs examine and explore little specific emotions or situations or stories... They're kitchen table songs, like a conversation between me and one other person. It's almost like an alien has been sent to get emotional samples from human beings and put it all together on a record.”
“I was really into sci-fi books as a kid. My dad is a physicist and he used to take my brothers and I into his lab when we were little. We played games with liquid nitrogen and Van de Graaff generators. He had the keys to the observatory at St Andrew's University and he'd get us up in the middle of the night to show us Halley's Comet. That's partly why the album is called Eye To The Telescope.”
“I managed to win Battle Of The Bands with one mandolin player! It was me and eleven goth bands and I won.”
“On the whole, I'm a positive, skippity-la-la person but I love the dark side of music and I will always want to explore that. It's a positive-sounding album but there's stuff underneath for sure.”
“It was blazing sunshine and I went on in a turquoise neck muff, glamorous dress and muddy boots and just had the best gig, really emotional. I've had emails from people saying that they cried. They promised it wasn't the drugs.”
“I'm not exactly sure what has driven me so hard... I've never questioned it. I've never had a back-up plan. I was never going to do anything else.”
“I follow the Bulletproof diet - it is based on grass-fed steak, vegetables, no carbs and a lot of butter.”