K. D. Lang

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

We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.

I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.

Television really has been my vehicle. I don't get played on the radio much, so I've relied on TV a lot.

I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.

There needn't be a distinction between your life and your music.

Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.

I sort of believe that my voice was preordained; I'm a Buddhist who believes in reincarnation so I think that my voice is a few lifetimes old.

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

I never, my producer never, we never let myself just sing. We were always trying to get the perfect vocal.

Minimal is the word I'd use to describe how I live and dress, and it's also how I sing. I'm not a big fan of overemoting.

It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.

I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.

I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.

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

There are days when I still want to be able to do what I want when I want, but there's also something wonderful about being secure.

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.

I don't sing anything that hurts my voice.

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.

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.