Top 103 Quotes & Sayings by Lisa Stansfield - Page 2

I've got a good imagination, so I can see someone arguing over a parking ticket and imagine they're getting a divorce or something.

I was really skinny and I had greasy hair and I was knock-kneed. There's something still in me that's like that, and I catch myself, you know when you're walking or something, and you think, 'Oh no, you're still that drippy person.'

I was happy to carry on without children because I was completely immersed in my work and my career. I only heard the clock ticking in my late 30s, and when my mother Marion died the year I turned 40 it hit me with such a force that we ended up having IVF, which turned out to be unsuccessful.

As a rule I start the day with a delicious health cocktail which includes soya protein powder, porridge oats, water, vitamin C, sunflower seeds and honey, plus Dr Udo's Ultimate Oil Blend for all the essential fatty acids your body needs.

Well, I always leave massive gaps between albums.

Manchester has always been a massively innovative city, loads of great scientific findings have come from Manchester. The first computer in the world was there and took up a whole building. So Manchester has always been very innovative.

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

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

We were working class, but my mother stopped working at the mill when she married my father and he went on to become an electrical engineer and later a draughtsman. So although we were never rich he was bringing in enough money to be able to splash out occasionally.

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

I think I popped out of the womb singing Diana Ross.

I was the first white British woman to reach No 1 on the R&B chart - the American black music chart.

I always remember when I first started out and first became a little bit famous, I went to a celebrity party. For me it was really intimidating.

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

Because everyone has love or wants love there are always problems. And if you don't have problems, you're probably leading a boring life.

You know, Rochdale is a really nice place, but it's not the most interesting place on the planet.

I think that if you hear music young, whatever music you hear influences you. I'm white, but I've been influenced by black music.

I'm like two different people. The way I sing comes from the music I listened to when I was younger, from black American R&B singers. My speaking voice is something else. It's what my mum and dad taught me.

One of the only things I've regretted was saying yes to a TV special, 'Motown Mania,' and I said I'll sing you a Diana Ross song. It was just naff.

The power of music is a wonderful thing. It can make us happy, make us cry. It can make us forget and make us remember.

You never know what to expect in life, so just roll with the punches and make the most of it. Because you've only got one life and you may as well have a really lovely time. And try not to hurt anybody on the way.

I was fortunate enough to meet Aretha Franklin but I was so overwhelmed that I just burst out crying.

People come up to me and sing, 'Been around the world and I-I-I-I... ' all the time.

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

You want what you write to be essential.

People get trapped sometimes and they don't feel they have a voice. And if you can in some way help someone by writing a song, it's really lovely.

For me, learning how to sing was just like learning how to speak.

I've never been a twerking kind of girl. I've always relied on my talent.

I love acting, but I've always prioritized my music.

She used to drive me to clubs for engagements and when I was 16 I got a job presenting a TV show in Newcastle. My mum didn't really like driving, but she carried on. Once I remember we got stuck in a snow storm, but she carried on to get me there in time. She was an amazing, incredible person.

It's good to write about love because it never goes out of fashion. And I'm quite a romantic.

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.'

Having money hasn't made me any happier. There are some negatives associated with it too, like having to be away from home when you don't want to be.

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.

I work out with weights, do yoga and run on the treadmill at the gym.

If you are a soul singer, you are a soul singer. If you are a heavy metal singer, then you are a heavy metal singer. What's color got to do with it? I don't go around thinking, 'I sing soul music and I'm white.' I just sing the way I feel.

I've always said that when people start saying, 'Oh my God, why doesn't this woman put down her bagpipes?' then I will. I just don't ever want to become like Cliff Richard.

Love's been here from the beginning of time, and life would be very boring without it.

My life isn't very racy or exciting so I make things up, tell stories. I like telling stories.

I always really loved soul music but all my friends were into the new romantic scene. I'd go to new romantic clubs and then go home and listen to soul music. I was sort of ashamed of listening to disco and soul music!

People talk about the All Woman video to this day.

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

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.