Top 35 Katherine Jenkins Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I am a perfectionist.”

— Katherine Jenkins

2. “When I dance, I forget everything else and just feel completely happy.”

— Katherine Jenkins

3. “I’m a Cancerian, the typical crab with the tough outer shell and the soft bit in the middle. I don’t think I’ll ever come to terms with people being unnecessarily nasty, but I can take it if someone doesn’t like my music – I’m not everyone’s cup of tea.”

— Katherine Jenkins

4. “Children should be able to live a life free from bullying and harassment and it is time that we all took a stand against this.”

— Katherine Jenkins

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5. “In Heaven, I believe my dad is somewhere doing something nice. I feel I’ve been too lucky to travel this far without somebody guiding me.”

— Katherine Jenkins

6. “I really see myself as a homegirl. Wales is my first home. London is my second home – I’ve been there 14 years now.”

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7. “I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It’s a mix of things.”

— Katherine Jenkins

8. “If you love somebody, you love them. My parents had a 25-year age gap between them and my mum was the breadwinner, my dad the house husband. I’m a strong believer that a good relationship can work, whatever the situation.”

— Katherine Jenkins

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9. “I did once shatter a chandelier. I was singing with my college choir in Wales. I was the soloist and I hit the high note and there was this massive bang and all this glass came down from the ceiling. I’d like that to be my party trick if I can perfect it.”

— Katherine Jenkins

10. “I want to have kids. I want to get married. That is still very important to me.”

— Katherine Jenkins

11. “My mother and father were perfect role models. They were together for 25 years and very much in love. But I’ve got too much to do now. I’m only 27.”

— Katherine Jenkins

12. “I have to believe that I know what’s best for me. For instance, I choose all my songs. I never record anything I don’t want to record. No one tells me what concerts to do.”

— Katherine Jenkins

13. “I’m launching my own festival in South Wales. It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time. It’s going to be held at Margam Park, because I wanted the venue to be as close to my home as possible.”

— Katherine Jenkins

14. “My idol was Marilyn Monroe, who was a size 16, I think, and curvy in all the right places. I will never be stick thin. I remember a shoot where I had to get into these tiny hot pants, and I thought, ‘God, I wish I hadn’t eaten.’”

— Katherine Jenkins

15. “You learn your lessons from the mistakes you make, not the things you achieve.”

— Katherine Jenkins

16. “I do feel as if I’m living a blessed life at the moment. I’ve been thinking about the phrase ‘living a dream,’ because that’s exactly what is happening. I’m just trying to go with the flow and take each day as it comes, otherwise I might freak out at all the things that have happened recently.”

— Katherine Jenkins

17. “Everything in my career is my decision – every picture, every outfit. You get one chance at this, and I never saw myself as being a puppet.”

— Katherine Jenkins

18. “I am fussy, about my diet and straining my voice. I know, sounds a bit over the top. But I’m not as bad as I used to be. These days I don’t drink alcohol for five days before a show – very dehydrating for the vocal cords, and all that acid reflux. I used to ban it for a fortnight. Nightmare.”

— Katherine Jenkins

19. “At the weekend, one of the paparazzi left their lunch box filled with half-eaten pasta salad on my doorstep: it was like a little warning, you know? ‘We have been here.’”

— Katherine Jenkins

20. “People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life.”

— Katherine Jenkins

21. “People perceive opera and classical as elitist – I disagree. I’ve always tried to mix the two, make it more accessible.”

— Katherine Jenkins

22. “Marilyn Monroe was supposedly a size 16, which is probably why I love her style; it suits me better.”

— Katherine Jenkins

23. “I’ve been lucky that I’ve performed with a lot of the classical people I’ve wanted to work with so I’d like to do something that people didn’t see coming. Like Madonna, or being Welsh – the Tom Jones thing. Or somebody suggested N-Dubz – that would be brilliant!”

— Katherine Jenkins

24. “I’ve only ever wanted to be a singer; I never wanted to be famous.”

— Katherine Jenkins

25. “I go home and don’t get treated any differently. People have known me all my life and are interested and very supportive but because they have known me forever I don’t get any diva treatment. My mum still tells me off if I haven’t loaded the dishwasher for her.”

— Katherine Jenkins

26. “I can’t leave the studio until everything is as it should be. And I can’t put a record out unless I am completely happy with it. I never want to be at a signing and hear my album playing and think, ‘Oh no, I could have done that top note better.’”

— Katherine Jenkins

27. “I always choose songs that I have an emotional connection to, and I often feel myself getting very emotional when I sing.”

— Katherine Jenkins

28. “I love coming back to Neath – this is home and always will be.”

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29. “Being a question on ‘The Weakest Link,’ that was quite a moment.”

— Katherine Jenkins

30. “For stage wear and gowns, Julien McDonald, who is a friend of mine. I love that he can be totally over the top for stage wear!”

— Katherine Jenkins

31. “Confidence is one of the sexiest things.”

— Katherine Jenkins

32. “I do not understand where the idea came from that opera is only for privileged people, I am as happy singing before 70,000 people at the Millennium Stadium, as I am in front of a few hundred in a small concert hall.”

— Katherine Jenkins

33. “I’m over the moon to be involved in the ‘Doctor Who’ Christmas special. I can’t quite believe it as it’s a part of the family tradition at the Jenkins household. I heard the news that I got the role on my 30th birthday and it was the best birthday present ever.”

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34. “I would absolutely, definitely never sell my wedding pictures to a magazine. I’d like it to be a special day, not a photo shoot. And once you’ve done that, your marriage becomes everybody else’s business.”

— Katherine Jenkins

35. “I’m not naturally a person that wants to exercise, but I find running is something I can do wherever I am in the world.”

— Katherine Jenkins

36. “I’d love to play Carmen – it’s the perfect mezzo role.”

— Katherine Jenkins

37. “Yes. I do about 70 shows a year, in the past year I’ve been to Italy, Australia, Japan, China, just about everywhere. I do it because I love singing. The money is a bonus.”

— Katherine Jenkins

38. “I was such a geek in school.”

— Katherine Jenkins