Musician Quotes

I worry unnecessarily.

I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.

I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting.

I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.

I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.

I started dancing when I was three, Scottish dancing.

I seem to have very polite fans, not fanatical ones.

I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.

I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.

I know my music probably isn't going to matter to the public after I die, but that doesn't mean I don't have something to offer.

I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.

I exercise three to four times a week, doing the Tracy Anderson Method, which involves toning and strengthening our small muscle groups.

I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.

Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?

Generally I can sleep any time, anywhere, any place, unless I'm anxious about work. I can get performance anxiety, so when I'm on tour it can be hard to sleep.

Enjoy every moment: you never know when things might change.

Divorce was very sad, obviously, but now I've gotten over it.

Saving animals is as simple as choosing synthetic alternatives instead of real fur.

I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.

It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.

I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.

There is a lot of work just in terms of traveling and logistics and people and gear and all that kind of stuff. But I never really have problems playing music. That never seems like work.

The band set up in January and just started rehearsing. If there was a song, we'd just rehearse it as a band, and it would get arranged as a band, and it got changed around a lot.

So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience.

No, I've heard over the years that it's nice for them to see somebody who's like, you know, a well-known successful musician who's Asian. I've heard it from a few musicians, too.

My first job in NYC was playing a gig in the early nineties at CBGBs.

Musicians always come off sounding a little bit pretentious, and a little bit... I don't know, hypocritical, from what they do, talking about strong issues.

It's not like that often, I mean, I suppose out of a ratio of 10 fans maybe like 1 or 2 of 'em might be Asian, and maybe every second or third time they might bring up something that they're Asian and I'm Asian.

It's much easier to work on other people's music and play in other people's bands as a guitar player instead of being the main songwriter and singer. That's a really big job to do that.

It's hard enough to make a good song and a good recording of that song. But to try to tailor it to some outside force is just like - It's never been a factor in what I've done or what the band's done.