Quotes from Lisa Stansfield

Business people want things to be safe but that's rubbish to me. In music nothing should be safe.

People say to me about my music 'it got me through college, it saved my marriage, it helped me to come out.' It's wonderful to be part of someone's life in a big way.'

Deeper' feels like we did when we made the first few albums. It's got that excitement. It felt like a voyage of discovery.

I think we all suffer the same pain, all feel the same happiness, and we all have the same emotions within us.

There was a period in music that didn't suit what I did. I didn't fit in.

I go through phases with money. I'll spend it liberally and then I'll panic and won't spend anything.

I don't want to do something just to be on TV. If I did I might as well just go on and put a meat pie on my head! If I go on TV I want to be doing something I want to do.

For a sore throat I take arnica, just a tiny pill dissolved under my tongue. And because your throat is like a muscle, I keep mine warm drinking herbal teas, usually camomile.

I suppose you have to be careful what you sing, because you might have to do it.

I'm proud to be one. I feel a lot stronger, a lot sexier and I think that all of that is reflected in my music.

Honestly, I think if you don't have happiness and you don't have love in your life you can have all the money and all the symbols in the world and it won't make any difference.

In Europe, I do see a lot of women who were fans years ago bring their daughters and sons to shows and that's how my music gets passed down, and I love that.

I do admire a lot of artists now who are completely multi-faceted - they're doing seven different jobs all at once and it doesn't seem to faze them whatsoever. It just astonishes me completely and I have nothing but admiration for them.

You don't hear that much about me being a white and singing soul music in England, but I get the feeling that in America it's really a big thing. It's like, 'God, look at the color of her skin.'

People thought I disappeared, but I never went away. Music has always been a priority.

I don't watch 'The X Factor,' I don't watch 'The Voice,' so I wouldn't want to do them.

Falling in love is an absolutely beautiful thing to go through, and why people shouldn't talk about it is beyond me.

You can make a whole album on your telephone, you can make an amazing video too!

You have to say no to a lot of people and when a lot of people are telling you what you're doing is a bit rubbish you just have to have the courage to say 'no it isn't' and believe in it.

If I could change the way I live my life today, I wouldn't change a single thing.

I started to sing professionally when I was about 13 or 14.

It's always been the same from a long time ago, it's people with promises and people dangling carrots and when you're young and impressionable, and ambitious, you want to believe them. I was always lucky because there was always part of me that didn't believe these people.

If there's one thing I wish I'd done differently it would be to have invested money in property.

I gave up everything and nearly became a farmer, walking around in headscarf and wellies for 10 years to find my confidence again.