KT Tunstall: Going

“I'm not exactly sure what has driven me so hard… I've never questioned it. I've never had a back-up plan. I was never going to do anything else.”

KT Tunstall

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Question

“Growing up in such a stunning landscape is inevitably going to have an effect on you, whether you rebel or whether you embrace, because it's so striking. I lived on this rugged, rugged coastline with the North Sea hammering at the cliffs, and the weather changes literally every half hour. My parents met as rock climbers, so they're absolute outdoors fiends, and we were constantly up hills and under canvas and camping and tramping around. They're very fond memories and something I still love to do.”

KT Tunstall

Barnes & Noble Interview with David Sprague (February 2006).

Love , Parent , Memory , Change

“It's lovely to get to say hello to people you've always admired from afar, but the fun really starts out front with people going commando whilst wearing daring mud suits.”

KT Tunstall

On attending the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, in a Glastonbury Festival site interview (22 June 2007) http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/news.aspx?id=589.

Love , People

“I was traveling in Greece as a teenager, and for those who haven't been to Greece, it's absolutely covered in olive groves — stunted, gnarly little bonsai-type trees. And I was driving on a moped and a huge black stallion had pulled away from its stake and was just going nuts in this tiny, tiny, hobbit-like forest. It was just such a powerful image, this enormous beast let loose and going wild in a fairy-tale wood of tiny trees… The song itself is really about going through the process of making the first album. It was a very strange experience and a very steep learning curve. For the previous 10 or 15 years, I'd been completely my own boss — when you play a gig, you just play your new song, the new song is always your favorite. And here I was having to make an album of stuff that's never gonna go away. I was being asked to make these huge decisions, so really the song is just about learning to listen to your guts again. There's actually very few times in our lives now when we have to do that.”

KT Tunstall

On influences in writing her song "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree", in a Barnes & Noble Interview with David Sprague (February 2006).

Travel , Decision , Tree , Learning

“Can you help me
Can you let me go
And can you still love me
When you can't see me anymore?

The fire fades away.”

KT Tunstall

"Other Side of the World".
Eye to the Telescope (2004)

Love , Help

“I went down to London with the idea that I was going to do vocals over this crazy, crazy trip-hop digital beat. Within two or three months, I heard Hunky Dory by David Bowie and that changed me in one way, and I realized what I actually wanted was to have an E Street Band — individuals, not session musicians.”

KT Tunstall

Barnes & Noble Interview with David Sprague (February 2006) http://web.archive.org/web/20070506185456/http://music.barnesandnoble.com/features/interview.asp?NID=1011932&z=y.

Way , Idea , Change

“I grew up knowing I could have had a million different lives. It makes your life mysterious and your imagination go wild.”

KT Tunstall

On knowing that she was adopted.
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Life , Imagination