KT Tunstall Quotes

If you stop trying to restrict yourself by defining yourself and love in other people's terms, it's the most liberating thing.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.

Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.

I love to reinvent myself, and that's because I am a very free person. I do what I feel, and I love who I am.

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.

More having to do whatever anybody said you had to do. I couldn't really do anything on my own. But as I got older and then came to America and then Grace became my name, it somehow freed me. All of a sudden, I can be this other person.

You just get out there and be what you want to be. That's part of evolving and part of staying true to yourself - part of remaining alive in a real authentic, long-term sense creatively: not listening to what other people tell you to be.

My earliest memory of freedom was when I was about 14 and I stopped caring what people thought about me! I was so free and in charge! That whole year I was exploring myself, and I was so 'free' that I got sent away to boarding school.

I've come out of myself as a person at Chelsea and expressed myself on and off the pitch.

Getting to be authentic is so liberating.

Life is short, and there's something to be said for being true to yourself.

So, tomorrow, I’m leaving. And I’m not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I’m going to do what I want to do. I’m going to be who I really am. And I’m going to figure out what that is.

The point of life that I'm currently at is a 'me right now' type of attitude. I am 37 years-old, my son is in college and my daughter is in high school. I'm becoming okay with me. I can't live life as an artist or person being someone that someone else has tried to mold me into. I'm not going to put on a dress that's two sizes too small. I'm custom making my own clothes so that they'll never fit anyone else if you know what I mean.

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

Be free, and live life fully.

That was a major goal for me - to be able to reach and encourage more women, to encourage them to express themselves and be what they want to be. People get very trapped where they are.

I'm just going to go live life. I'm going to go enjoy life. I have nothing left to hide. I am kind of a free person, a free soul.