I grew up in cattle country-that's why I became a vegetarian. Meat stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health. K. D. Lang More Quotes by K. D. Lang More Quotes From K. D. Lang We all love animals. Why do we call some 'pets' and others 'dinner?' K. D. Lang vegetarianism pet animal The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what's happening up there. K. D. Lang tired infinite sky I'm also alternative because of Canada - there's something romantic about being Canadian. We're a relatively unpopulated, somewhat civilized, and clean and resourceful country. I always push the fact that I'm Canadian. K. D. Lang canada alternatives country 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. K. D. Lang selfish ego thinking To dance is human, to polka is divine. K. D. Lang polka dance divine You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself. K. D. Lang standing-alone audience singing 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. K. D. Lang youth self thinking 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. K. D. Lang home fall thinking Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling. K. D. Lang summer fun sweet 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. K. D. Lang knowing life-is world The older I get, the more I embrace who I am. K. D. Lang brittany embrace who-i-am I certainly fall in love with artists. I think that's probably the aspiration of an artist, to make a listener empathize so deeply that they do fall in love with you. K. D. Lang falling-in-love artist love-you 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. K. D. Lang wisdom-and-experience emotional voice 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. K. D. Lang prejudice judgement art Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss. K. D. Lang heartache bliss song There needn't be a distinction between your life and your music. K. D. Lang distinction I never, my producer never, we never let myself just sing. We were always trying to get the perfect vocal. K. D. Lang always-trying producers perfect I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by. K. D. Lang moved speak trying I don't sing anything that hurts my voice. K. D. Lang voice hurt 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. K. D. Lang umbilical-cord understanding song
