KT Tunstall Quotes

I didn't want to be the girl who posed in 'Playboy' and then - by the way - made some music.

I see explicit covers on magazines, and they're getting even more explicit, and it's like, Are women being empowered, or is this just what sells magazines? Are they feeling pressured, or have they really come into themselves and are saying, 'I am woman, hear me roar?'

With pop music and pop musicians, you know everything about everyone all the time, particularly their physical appearance. With female musicians, that's made a big thing of, and I think people, certainly with me, have appreciated a bit of mystery.

I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do.

The whole sex symbol or babe thing doesn't bother me.

I'd be lying if I said I never think about my female fans in certain shots and certain scenes. Like, when I'm topless, I might think: 'This one is for the ladies.'

If you've looked at all the glamour magazines lately, all the covers are actresses. If they are on those covers, they are going to try to emulate models. That's just the way it is.

It's sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look.

Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?

I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.

These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty; they are in showbiz, and showing what they've got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney.

I don't rely on my figure to sell records.

I'm not a sex symbol.

Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty.

The way I see it, all the popular singers are strippers.

I consider Playboy very wholesome, frankly.

I'm not a sex symbol, at least in the conventional sense.

I've had inquiries for things like TV show 'Splash,' where people go out in front of the whole nation in a bikini. But I think bikinis are just for the beach.

I don't think I need to wear a bikini to attract the audience. I will not do that.

We are women. We are attractive. We have great bodies. You can't escape that fact, so why not use it to our advantage? If sex sells, I'm all for it.

Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes.

I wasn't a sex symbol, I was a sex zombie.

I refused to wear make-up on TV. I wanted my music to be heard.

I think when Madonna did sexy stuff, she looked more in control. And I think it looked more like she was breaking boundaries. Today, it feels like it's pandering to everything that's wrong, and I don't think it's nice, especially for young girls.

I'm not against half naked girls - not as often as I'd like to be.