Top 50 K. D. Lang Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “We all love animals. Why do we call some ‘pets’ and others ‘dinner?’”

— K. D. Lang

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2. “You have to respect your audience. Without them, you’re essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.”

— K. D. Lang

3. “I sort of believe that my voice was preordained; I’m a Buddhist who believes in reincarnation so I think that my voice is a few lifetimes old.”

— K. D. Lang

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4. “The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what’s happening up there.”

— K. D. Lang

5. “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

6. “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

7. “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

8. “Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.”

— K. D. Lang

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9. “To dance is human, to polka is divine.”

— K. D. Lang

10. “I think that the older I get and the more comfortable I get with myself, the more I realize that art is about relinquishing control of your emotions and being vulnerable and innocent.”

— K. D. Lang

11. “The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.”

— K. D. Lang

12. “I just really allowed my muse to be my guide and I just go with whatever I’m feeling.”

— K. D. Lang

13. “Traveling renews you.”

— K. D. Lang

14. “I don’t believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.”

— K. D. Lang

15. “I believe in monogamy if that’s what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.”

— K. D. Lang

16. “I think I don’t sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it’s just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.”

— K. D. Lang

17. “I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.”

— K. D. Lang

18. “And I’m not even just talking artists, every single person in this nation has the right to be themselves, live life go team go. I love you Canada, thank you so much.”

— K. D. Lang

19. “I’m proud that I was one of the first ones out, singing loud and proud.”

— K. D. Lang

20. “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

21. “I never get tired of exploring Americana or country music, and I always have a little bit of a crooner in me that never seems to go away.”

— K. D. Lang

22. “He had total love in his eyes when he performed. He was the total androgenous beauty. I would practice Elvis in front of the mirror when I was twelve or thirteen years old.”

— K. D. Lang

23. “It’s just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.”

— K. D. Lang

24. “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

25. “Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.”

— K. D. Lang

26. “Minimal is the word I’d use to describe how I live and dress, and it’s also how I sing. I’m not a big fan of overemoting.”

— K. D. Lang

27. “I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It’s just a fear of not knowing what women have that’s so powerful. It’s this shield they put up to try to get closer.”

— K. D. Lang

28. “Country music was a part of my life. Now it isn’t. We had a good relationship, really, but we wanted each other at arm’s length. The people in Nashville didn’t want to be responsible for my looks or my actions. But they sure did like the listeners I brought.”

— K. D. Lang

29. “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

30. “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

31. “I feel like at 50 I’ve decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards.”

— K. D. Lang

32. “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

33. “I’m nearly 50. I’m past being photographed falling out of bars.”

— K. D. Lang

34. “There are days when I still want to be able to do what I want when I want, but there’s also something wonderful about being secure.”

— K. D. Lang

35. “I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don’t represent the entire gay community because it’s a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.”

— K. D. Lang

36. “My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it’s really amazing. I don’t take that for granted.”

— K. D. Lang

37. “My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.”

— K. D. Lang

38. “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

39. “I think I was a singer before I came out of the womb. I also think that the way you live your life, and the choices you make parallel what doors open up for you.”

— K. D. Lang

40. “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

41. “I’m a singer and as long as I can sing – which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do – I’d like to carry on making records.”

— K. D. Lang

42. “There needn’t be a distinction between your life and your music.”

— K. D. Lang

43. “If you knew how meat was made, youd probably lose your lunch.”

— K. D. Lang

44. “I don’t sing anything that hurts my voice.”

— K. D. Lang

45. “I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it’s controlling you it doesn’t feel good at all.”

— K. D. Lang

46. “I think I have allowed my voice to experiment with the different genres. And I think that I have just really enjoyed the journey of getting to know my voice and seeing what it’s capable of, what it’s not capable of.”

— K. D. Lang

47. “It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn’t take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.”

— K. D. Lang

48. “I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.”

— K. D. Lang

49. “Television really has been my vehicle. I don’t get played on the radio much, so I’ve relied on TV a lot.”

— K. D. Lang

50. “I just try to speak passionately about things I’m involved in and moved by.”

— K. D. Lang