Natalie Imbruglia Quotes

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

I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.

You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.

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.

Illusion never changed into something real.

I'm such a chameleon. I never get bored.

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

If I start feeling down I'll gorge myself on pasta. That usually does the trick. It's the Italian blood in me.

Sex sells everything, but I don't buy it.

I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.

I exercise three to four times a week, doing the Tracy Anderson Method, which involves toning and strengthening our small muscle groups.

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

I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.

Enjoy every moment: you never know when things might change.

Isolation is a big part of songwriting.

I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.

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

Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.

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 much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.

I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.

It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.

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.

My kitchen bench is covered with vitamins and protein powders. I go through phases when I'm sure I'm taking too many - but I don't get sick often.

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.

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

You're only as good as your last record and you could get dropped.

I worry unnecessarily.

I know I get cold, cause I can't leave things well alone. Understand I'm accident prone. Me, I get free every night the moon is mine. But when the morning comes don't say you love me, don't say you need me. I really don't think that's fair.

I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting.

I'm all out o faith, this is how I feel. I'm cold and I am shamed lying naked on the floor. Illusions never change into something real. I'm wide awake and I can see the perfect sky is torn. You're a little late, I'm already torn.

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

Saving animals is as simple as choosing synthetic alternatives instead of real fur.

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

Divorce was very sad, obviously, but now I've gotten over it.

Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?

I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.

I started dancing when I was three, Scottish dancing.

You're either too fat or too thin. You just can't win.