Natalie Quotes

Because I've been doing my practice for so long, I knew what to do even under really hard circumstances.

I see myself as an athlete and just try to market myself as a feminine athlete.

Intuition tells me how to live my day, intuition tells me when to walk away.

Illusion never changed into something real.

There is no kind way to rip the skin off animals' backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares the blame for the torture and gruesome deaths of millions of animals each year.

It's not very often that I like new bands.

The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.

When I'm in London, I love to visit Kensington gardens and just sit in the park and read a good book.

I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.

I seem to have very polite fans, not fanatical ones.

I know my music probably isn't going to matter to the public after I die, but that doesn't mean I don't have something to offer.

I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.

I worry unnecessarily.

I'm not a nightclub person, but you need to have a social life sometimes.

I started dancing when I was three, Scottish dancing.

I would have been happy to have waited till I was in my mid- to late-30s before I got married, but you don't choose when these things happen, and when they do, there's no doubt in your mind.

The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.

While wine may be only a drink, it is also one of the most complex sensory pleasures we enjoy. It is as cerebral as it is sensual, and it requires a lifetime to appreciate it.

It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.

When you return to the same area a few times, you get that frequent rapport with the public and the fans of the music along with having a certain warmth when you walk onstage.

I love jazz and pop rock and country. I grew up listening to Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Anne Murray - if I hear something really great I want to be a part of it.

When I appear onstage, that's my departure from Momhood - and I transform into Natalie MacMaster: the entertainer, the fiddler, the performer.

I’m very proud to say that Buddy MacMaster is my uncle. He gives credibility to what I do and I’m glad I can carry that MacMaster name because he has created such a good name.

If something or someone's really bugging you, just sit on it. Just sit on it.

I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.

I really kind of set the bar really low, so I don't get disappointed.

I see life everywhere I look. I get the energy off the water.

I would feel like my life was a success if my children grow into well-adjusted, happy, functioning members of society. Capable and happy and normal.

We want to be true to ourselves, and honest to the fans and to ourselves.

I'm not good at multi-tasking.

I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.

I have to get the whole sense of the guy for me to be turned on by him, for me to actually like him. I like someone that has motivation and is really dedicated to something.

I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.

I think I'm a better mother because of work, because I'm happy. If I wasn't working, I would just be waiting for the kids to come home every day, and living vicariously through their lives.

I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school.

I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.

British fashion is a serious business. The British fashion industry is worth £21bn to the U.K. economy and employs 819,000 people across the country.

I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

I just wear what I like and lots of it is British.

I think the fashion industry was slightly put off by people they didn't know. They were presented with things like 20-gatefold color brochures.

I always thought I looked kind of like Keith Richards, and sometimes I think I look like Michael Jackson.

It's really wonderful to be able to be nobody, and then have a moment when I can be somebody, and then go right back to being nobody again.

I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.

It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.

When it came time to sequence the album, the new arrangements really demanded a different order. They were so different than they were before that the old sequence didn't work anymore.

I've never sold my publishing. I have 100% control of all of my publishing and that includes everything, every use of my songs.

I think I have a really diverse audience. I've had people from all sorts of sexual persuasions.

I think I don't invest so much time in thinking about people's sexuality. I just take people as individuals.

I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.

Have I been blind, have I been lost, inside myself and my own mind?