Quotes from K. D. Lang

If you knew how meat was made, you'd probably lose your lunch.

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

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

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

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'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do - I'd like to carry on making records.

I grew up in cattle country-that's why I became a vegetarian. Meat stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health.

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

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

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.

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 think I was a singer before I came out of the womb. I also think that the way you live your life, and the choices you make parallel what doors open up for you.

It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.

Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.

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

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 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.

And I'm not even just talking artists, every single person in this nation has the right to be themselves, live life go team go. I love you Canada, thank you so much.

He had total love in his eyes when he performed. He was the total androgenous beauty. I would practice Elvis in front of the mirror when I was twelve or thirteen years old.

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

We all love animals. Why do we call some "pets" and others "dinner?"

When women make their image about youth and sexuality, 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.

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.