Taylor Dane Quotations

I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.

My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.

Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years.

And I'm also looking for a comeback record and it has to touch a lot of people.

I love drag queens... they perform me better than I ever could myself.

Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences.

I think I was perceived in one fashion. A video is based on a song. I think you can get glimpses of people's presence within that. There's some people you enjoy watching more than others.

I'm not going to get into the writer's skills or what he was trying to portray because that's not fair. I can only say what I felt was trying to be portrayed there.

I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.

By the second tour I had rice cakes and hummus with me, and I was jumping rope in my room.

The men were all scumbags, but the whole point of the film is to show the development of that. Each guy is going in there to have a good time. By and large, these men are career men, family men, and you just see the deterioration of them.

Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.

So when I'm working out I do things extreme.

But once you strip that down, you realize it's all about a voice, like a Norah Jones - that's inspiring to me.

I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.

I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.

I just try to get out of my own way because if anyone is their own worst enemy, it's usually you.

I started working out with a trainer and I immediately saw results.

I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.

When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.

My current mantra is that sometimes we need teachers in our lives. I never had that in my life, parents and stuff like that; I tried to stay on the outside of them or anybody that had that kind of influence.

That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.

The moral of the story is that with each person justice is served, but what is justice at the end of the day when my brains are blown out anyway?

I feel I am blessed that I have found my stride and relaxed into my life's purpose.

Love is when I smile and breathe deeply down to my toes. I've given myself a gift of caring for myself and learned a new way to look at my issues. And I'm lying in some fresh sheets looking out the window at some visual beauty... a mountain, an ocean, a stream, a forest. A lovely man lying next to me or my babies sleeping.

I know peace exists. And we are always changing. It's scary.

Forget things and have a quiet moment.

I don't always win at this, but I know I do better when I meditate.

I'm passionate about nature and the respect, peace, and beauty I derive from it. My voice, my live performance, and when I'm in the studio. My children and love.

Loving a man truly and really brings me to my knees.

My son always makes me feel vulnerable.

Be kind. It's very needed to be respectful to all.

To me, it was about finding new opportunities. I know my voice touches people. It has for years. I can't give that up.

Sometimes it takes some time out on your own to find your way back home.

Love the woods and nature and the water and animals. Stop the BS with poaching and hunting. Preservation is critical.

Emotional pain makes me want to isolate. Or hit back. It's very tough to rise above my natural inclinations. I'm always working on this.

I smoked some pot as a kid, but I just never did drugs.

My mom lived on an ashram on the early eighties. She turned me on to kundalini yoga and chanting and Transcendental Meditation. That was the first time I ever knew real peace.

I have always loved Ed Norton and Ryan Gosling. Also Julianne Moore and Cate Blanchett.