KT Tunstall Quotes

I don't understand what I do, I just know that it's great.

I found I am not an anarchistic form creator; I'm intuitive, and I'm trying to figure out a way to explore human fragility.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

Sometimes there are certain things that you gotta grow into. Sometimes, for some actors, they know it spiritually at a young age. Others need to grow into it.

I do not seek. I find.

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

We are wiser than we know.

When I look back at the record and listen to it, I can sort of see where I was at when I was making it - these brief little moments, different places I was at emotionally.

I think 'Lost Boy' is more of a metaphor for oneself. When I listen to that song, I don't picture someone else. I kind of wrote it from a very honest place.

I learned over the years to trust that the subconscious is going to provide guidance.

I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in the way of a scientist. I could not count on precision or calculation; I could only count on intuition.

To change your mind under the direction of the wisdom of the heart is a brush stroke on the masterpiece you are delivering to the world.

Often I don't know what the song means until it's finished. Sometimes months later. I don't think that's bad. It implies that I don't know what I'm doing but-I think if you're able to follow your instincts, then that's knowing what you're doing.

Be aware of your inner voice and follow it, even though most of the time it will tell you the most uncomfortable path to choose.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

It never gets boring for me because there's so many different things to explore in the studio. The studio's become the sanctuary that people have come in and found new things out about themselves, as weird as that sounds. But it's true, I'm no different. I've made some crazy hard records, and I've made a jazz album.

Every now and then, I feel terribly uncomfortable with what I'm working on, and then I think maybe I am an artist. I'm not very articulate about it, but I do know that you have to follow your gut.

I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It's a parallel thing in me.

There are parts of me that I keep secret even from myself. I have demons and I'd love to be able to healthily look at the demons and still be a wonderful actor and not feel I need them to create.

When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.

To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

In terms of the feeling of the piece, I cant think about what people are gonna think about it, what are the critics gonna say, I'm trying to bring some resolution, and realize that myself. It's a struggle; it's a process that gets us this.

We can be eaten by techniques and forget what we have inside of us.