Natalie Imbruglia Quotations

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

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

Since childhood I've always had a tendency to lean towards melancholy. My sisters suffer from it too, so maybe it's a genetic thing. But none of us has ever been on medication.

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

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

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.

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.

I'm a fan of homeopathy, acupuncture and spiritual healing. In Australia, this is not weird, but when I arrived in the U.K., everyone thought I was a freak.

I've always been drawn to the four-leaf clover. It's deeply significant to my sister and me, so much so that we both have had it tattooed on the inside of our wrists.

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

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

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'm such a chameleon. I never get bored.

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

I'm quite confident with the way that I look but you find something else to focus on don't you if, I mean I, I have body issues that's my thing so you find something to focus on when you're a perfectionist, I think.

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

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 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.

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

When I'm passionate about something, I just get excited.

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

I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.

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

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

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

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

I started dancing when I was three, Scottish dancing.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

My mum said I told her I wanted to be a hairdresser during the week and a star on the weekend and that was when I was really young.

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.

There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.

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.

Generally I can sleep any time, anywhere, any place, unless I'm anxious about work. I can get performance anxiety, so when I'm on tour it can be hard to sleep.

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.

Nicole Richie is supposed to be way too thin. It's more likely she's gone that way as a reaction to being called too chubby in the past. It's her only way of controlling the situation she's in. I completely understand that.

I thought that was normal. I thought you were born knowing what you wanted to do, ... So I couldn't understand any kids who were like, 'Whoa, what am I going to do?' I started venturing when I was 13 into singing and acting.

Robbie does nothing for me, either his music or him as a guy!

It's one of those things, you can't escape it. You set your own boundaries and you say as much as you want to say and the rest you keep private -- that's the only thing you can really do,

How she smiles for the camera: When I'm on a photo shoot, I get my make-up artist to lift her top up and flash her boobs.

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

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.

Illusion never changed into something real.

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.

It was only cool to have blond hair and be a surfer chick [in Sydney]. I could learn how to surf, but I still looked Italian. It took me a long time to realize that was a good thing.

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

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

I worry unnecessarily.

Isolation is a big part of songwriting.