K. D. Lang Quotes

I don’t sing anything that hurts my voice.

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

As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it’s hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you’re attached to it.

I think I fall into a lot of cracks in terms of I’m too something. I’m too this, I’m too that. And my music has never really had a home. I’ve been this floating alternative. I’m too mainstream for alternative. I’m too alternative for mainstream. And I’m just kind of wandering.

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.

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

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

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.

My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.

My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it’s really amazing. I don’t take that for granted.

When women make their image about youth and s*xuality, and not about intellect, that’s kind of a dead-end road. So I think it’s a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.

I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses – being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

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.

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

I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don’t represent the entire gay community because it’s a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.

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 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.