K. D. Lang

I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.

I think I have allowed my voice to experiment with the different genres. And I think that I have just really enjoyed the journey of getting to know my voice and seeing what it's capable of, what it's not capable of.

I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.

I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all.

I don't sing anything that hurts my voice.

I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.

There are days when I still want to be able to do what I want when I want, but there's also something wonderful about being secure.

Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.

I never get tired of exploring Americana or country music, and I always have a little bit of a crooner in me that never seems to go away.

I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.

I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards.

Minimal is the word I'd use to describe how I live and dress, and it's also how I sing. I'm not a big fan of overemoting.

I'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do - I'd like to carry on making records.

It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.

I never, my producer never, we never let myself just sing. We were always trying to get the perfect vocal.

There needn't be a distinction between your life and your music.

I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.

We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.

I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.

I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.

Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.

The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what's happening up there.

I just really allowed my muse to be my guide and I just go with whatever I'm feeling.

I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.

I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.