Quotes from Taylor Dayne

I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.

All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.

This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.

Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.

I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.

My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.

My current mantra is that sometimes we need teachers in our lives. I never had that in my life, parents and stuff like that; I tried to stay on the outside of them or anybody that had that kind of influence.

The men were all scumbags, but the whole point of the film is to show the development of that. Each guy is going in there to have a good time. By and large, these men are career men, family men, and you just see the deterioration of them.

I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.

Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences.

And I'm also looking for a comeback record and it has to touch a lot of people.

My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.

By the second tour I had rice cakes and hummus with me, and I was jumping rope in my room.

I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.

If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.

I'm not going to get into the writer's skills or what he was trying to portray because that's not fair. I can only say what I felt was trying to be portrayed there.

I smoked some pot as a kid, but I just never did drugs.

Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years.

Well, honey, I had the million dollar houses, I had the car, I had the horse, I had the barn; I had everything. Was I set free? I didn't even know what that meant.

Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.

If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.

That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.

My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.

I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.