Diana Krall Quotes

'Tongue' is literally just one piece of the puzzle. This album is something I've worked on over the course of my entire career and something I've been discovering myself in it.

There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.

I don't think I'll ever do a record that's just the same song over and over again because I'd like to think about it like it's an album and a snapshot of everything that makes you who you are and where you're at at that time in your life.

I'm going to keep on finding out the kind of man I am through my music. That's the one place I can be free. But the reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.

My lyrics come from my experiences growing up in life, trying to find out and express who I am. That's basically it. I'm not trying to be a prophet or anything like that. I'm just reflecting on life.

Acting, I get to explore other people and other characters; with music, I get to express and explore myself.

A lot of my music is inspired by personal situations in my life.

I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the places I want to also be.

The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

Music is a vital part of my life, and it has been since I was a kid. It helped me find my identity as a person, it helped me find my identity as an artist, and it helped me get in touch with emotions that I didn't know I had.

How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

My identity started developing through the songs I was writing.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

When I started doing music, it was out of despair and boredom. I got passionate about it, and I felt that it allowed me to become somebody: an artist who explores her different identities.

I think songwriting was the biggest way that I found my identity.

My music is a whole reflection of who I'm as an individual.

I think the range of my life shows in my work.

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.

Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.

Most of the songs I wrote are personal.

I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music; it is about what happens when you are doing the music.

The business of living - that's your artwork, and the process of that is finding out who you are, what it all means.