Paloma Faith Quotes

I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.

- Paloma Faith

Quickly, Particularly, Churning

Once you accept that we're all imperfect, it's the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all that and not feel worried.

- Paloma Faith

Mistakes, Making Mistakes, Liberating

I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.

- Paloma Faith

Me, Running, Idea, Paparazzi

Mum doesn't like it when I mention that Dad's a better cook than her. He was born in Spain and spent eight years in Portugal and is exceptional at lots of cuisines.

- Paloma Faith

Like, Spain, Mum, Portugal

If I go out with no make-up and a tracksuit on, nobody comes up to me. And if they do, I won't do a photo because I wouldn't want any photographic evidence.

- Paloma Faith

Want, Evidence, Make-Up, Photographic

I try to stick to a certain diet all the time, and then when I feel like a reward, I have it. I try to stick to no dairy, no sugar, no wheat.

- Paloma Faith

Reward, Feel, Like, Wheat

Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.

- Paloma Faith

Build, How, Get, Stages

You feel a sense of elation seeing yourself on a billboard.

- Paloma Faith

Seeing, Feel, Elation, Billboard

Anything that's on television as often as someone on 'The X Factor' is what's successful. That doesn't mean that I condone that or think that it's right. To be honest, I'd be the first to say I think it's a shame. But if that's the way it is then that's the way it is.

- Paloma Faith

Shame, Anything, I Think, Condone

I wish I was more stupid because I'm either completely ecstatic and joyous and absolutely high as a kite or I'm a bit morbid. There's never anything in between.

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Stupid, I Wish, Ecstatic, Kite

I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.

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Want, Mysterious, Shows, Eerie

I was mainly raised by a working mum who didn't have much time or inclination for making food. So I had three or four basic meals: fish fingers and a tomato; a packet scotch egg and a tomato; pasta with a tin of tomatoes; and extra mild plastic-y cheddar chopped into cubes with bits of cucumber.

- Paloma Faith

Egg, Cucumber, Mum, Extra

I'm proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.

- Paloma Faith

Proud, Think, I Think, Overrated

I go running three times a week - outside in the park, come rain or shine, and I hate every moment of it. I hate everything about it. But I know it's important for health reasons and the reason why I run, in particular, is because my stage work is like cardiovascular work so I don't want to lose my breath on stage.

- Paloma Faith

Week, Reason, Reasons, Cardiovascular

I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.

- Paloma Faith

Daily, Every Day, Routine, Brushing

I mean, my music career and my acting career - if I want to do them to the extent that I eventually do want to get to, it's going to be a bit of a balancing act. But I'm hoping they'll just go hand in hand.

- Paloma Faith

Career, Extent, Eventually, Music Career

There's nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be.

- Paloma Faith

Achieving, Better, Might, Goals

I'm really into food; it's one of my favourite things - everything from potato waffles to lobster.

- Paloma Faith

Food, Favourite, Really, Lobster

Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.

- Paloma Faith

Goes, Like, Still, Cockney

I'd never go on a reality show - it's too invasive.

- Paloma Faith

Never, Go, Too, Reality Show

I think what makes me different from the average Joe is that I feel free to be myself and express myself in the way that I want. If that makes you mad, we're living in a world of dire straits. If anything, it makes you more sane.

- Paloma Faith

Average, I Think, Joe, Dire

I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.

- Paloma Faith

Away, Like, Read, Normally

Whatever you are, you have the right to get married.

- Paloma Faith

Right, Get, Married, Get Married

We live in a society where everything's packaged.

- Paloma Faith

Society, Everything, Where, Packaged

I was once in a long relationship with a man who ran a vintage clothes store but had been a chef, so I'd come home each night to a different three-course meal. I was quite fat, but so happy.

- Paloma Faith

Happy, Been, Each Night, Ran

Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.

- Paloma Faith

Artists, Lot, Covered, Photo Shoots

I use debit cards for everyday purchases, as I don't believe in credit cards. But this has caused problems, especially with American touring, because I refuse to have a credit card - and in America you can't pay for anything on a debit card.

- Paloma Faith

American, Cards, Use, Card

I don't overthink when I'm styling. I kind of forgive myself and accept that I will make mistakes. Getting dressed should be a fun experience!

- Paloma Faith

Forgive, Kind, Will, Getting Dressed

Curvy is something to be proud of.

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Proud, Something, Curvy

It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.

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Culture, British, Eccentric, Celebrated

I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.

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Love, Stories, I Love, Eccentric

I feel quite excited about the possibility of working on multiple albums. There's something really iconic about having a catalog featuring a lot of albums, and I'd love to have that legacy.

- Paloma Faith

Love, Albums, Having, Possibility

I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.

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Good, Communicate, Got, Art School

A lot of men do have a fear of my ultra-femininity. Sometimes people say I look like a drag queen, that I look scary, but I think that's a fear of my confidence. Most women in contemporary culture pare down their femininity, so there's a slight androgyny about them, and I think men have got used to seeing that.

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Queen, Sometimes, I Think, Pare

I stay true to my lyrics. If I go back and look at them in hindsight, the emotions I had when I wrote them have passed. It feels unjustified to change them.

- Paloma Faith

Emotions, Hindsight, Feels, Lyrics

I'm not one for sightseeing or going around the shops when I'm on holiday. I do enough shopping when I'm at home, and like to have a complete break when I'm away.

- Paloma Faith

Away, Like, Going, Shopping

Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.

- Paloma Faith

Magic, Been, Films, Terry

My favourite authors are Milan Kundera and Jeanette Winterson.

- Paloma Faith

Favourite, Milan, Authors

I get to know my regular fans, and they inspire me.

- Paloma Faith

Inspire, Me, Get, Regular

I think initially, the record industry struggled a lot with digital media because there are a lot of aspects to it that can potentially destroy our industry.

- Paloma Faith

Think, Digital, I Think, Potentially

I travel regularly and have learnt to be very methodical as far as packing is concerned. For example, I always check the weather in advance of where I'm going to ensure that I've packed the right clothes.

- Paloma Faith

Always, Very, Ensure, Learnt

My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.

- Paloma Faith

Desire, Approach, Really, Bored

I'm a serial monogamist.

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Serial

I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.

- Paloma Faith

Bureaucracy, Person, Idea, Free Person

I enjoy being a girl.

- Paloma Faith

Girl, Enjoy, Being, Being A Girl

I try not to brand myself 'weird' any more because it sticks.

- Paloma Faith

Weird, More, Sticks, Brand

There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.

- Paloma Faith

Nothing, Eyebrow, Had, Frida

I agree with cosmetic surgery for medical reasons - my mother had breast cancer and I think it's very sad when somebody has no choice in what happens to their body.

- Paloma Faith

Medical, Think, Very, Cosmetic

I vote Labour and can't begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory.

- Paloma Faith

Begin, Acknowledge, Tory, Vote

I don't understand why the accent you speak in has to indicate what level of intellect you have.

- Paloma Faith

Understand, Level, Intellect, Indicate

Anybody who says they don't want to be seen on a show which has millions of people watching it at one time when they're in the business of selling records is a bit silly.

- Paloma Faith

Business, Records, Which, One Time

I love Andre 3000 from OutKast. I think we'd complement each other, but I'm hoping he's got a good sense of humour.

- Paloma Faith

Love, Think, Andre, Complement

It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'

- Paloma Faith

Gender, Like, Another, Tragic

I don't connect much with the present. I have more of an affinity for what came in the past.

- Paloma Faith

Past, More, In The Past, Affinity

We all get old, but I always say the skinny, pretty girls will be screwed.

- Paloma Faith

Pretty, Always, Screwed, Pretty Girls

I don't feel I fit in with morning television because I'm like a vampire and I like to stay up late.

- Paloma Faith

Television, Feel, Like, Vampire

I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child.

- Paloma Faith

Think, Like, I Think, Only Child

I lend people money, but I'd never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn't get it back.

- Paloma Faith

Friendship, People, Back, Lend

I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.

- Paloma Faith

Maybe, I Think, Trained, Options

I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.

- Paloma Faith

Business, Doing, Other, Not Interested

Sometimes when you've got too much money you lose your imagination.

- Paloma Faith

Money, Sometimes, Too, Too Much Money

All creative people have to have vulnerability because those nuances are what move people. So I'm deeply insecure - but I'm good at hiding it.

- Paloma Faith

Vulnerability, Move, Nuances, Insecure

I feel curious about every situation I'm in.

- Paloma Faith

Curious, Feel, About, Situation

I'd say that, first and foremost, I'm a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up.

- Paloma Faith

Young, Performer, Set, Young Age

Real talent shines through regardless of how many others there are around you.

- Paloma Faith

Through, How, Shines, Regardless

Celebrity culture is an aspirational culture regardless of how much you don't want it to be.

- Paloma Faith

Celebrity, How, How Much, Regardless

If I get in a relationship, it's always for the long-term; if not, I don't see the point.

- Paloma Faith

See, Always, Get, Long-Term

I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.

- Paloma Faith

Love, I Love, Whenever, Cinema

If I see something that inspires me, I'll dress like it.

- Paloma Faith

Dress, See, Like, Inspires

When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.

- Paloma Faith

Career, Other, Prolific, Songwriters

I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't have much emotional support, and people who come from working-class families who had loads of love but no money.

- Paloma Faith

Love, Working-Class, Wealthy, Met

I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade.

- Paloma Faith

Think, Decade, I Think, Million

Ever since I was little, my mum used to choose an outfit for me and lay it on the bed so I'd know what I was wearing the next day. I never went to a uniformed school, so I always had an outfit - and I never really grew out of that, I don't think.

- Paloma Faith

Bed, Next, Mum, Uniformed

I'm so used to changing time zones that I can sleep at any time. I'm rarely ever tossing and turning - if I am, it's really a big deal.

- Paloma Faith

Big, Deal, Tossing, Rarely

I'm not that materialistic. I like nice clothes and that, but I don't spend lots of money on stuff. I'm not really into TV, I don't have an iPod, I've got a gramophone.

- Paloma Faith

Like, TV, iPod, Materialistic

I've got so many clothes; I can dress in any style.

- Paloma Faith

Style, Dress, Many, Clothes

When you're on the pop treadmill, you don't always feel that cool because you have to do things to promote the record that aren't necessarily your environment.

- Paloma Faith

Cool, Feel, Always, Promote

My mum came from nothing and didn't have many opportunities in her youth, and she blames a lot of her social inadequacies on that.

- Paloma Faith

Nothing, Social, Mum, Opportunities

You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism - so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.

- Paloma Faith

Gender, Brought, Mum, Feminism

Some men think that if you're empowered and sure of yourself then you're a man-hater, but it's like, 'No, I'm just the same as you are, but maybe just a tiny bit more confident.'

- Paloma Faith

Think, Some, Sure, Tiny

I've spent a lot of time being bohemian and sleeping on floors, but eventually I want to have kids and I want to bring them up in a secure environment.

- Paloma Faith

Want, Bring, Spent, Floors

You cannot schedule death.

- Paloma Faith

Death, You, Cannot, Schedule

I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.

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Think, Everybody, I Think, Inner

I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.

- Paloma Faith

Admiration, Been, Lot, Married

I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.

- Paloma Faith

Dark, Someone, Like, Humour

I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.

- Paloma Faith

Change, Proud, Like, Illusion

I'm very affected by what I watch and read.

- Paloma Faith

Watch, Very, Read, Affected

I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.

- Paloma Faith

Love, Courage, Protecting, Quite

I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.

- Paloma Faith

Want, Competing, Last, Bone

I am inspired by show girls and Vegas. I was a cabaret performer, so that's where all that influence comes from.

- Paloma Faith

Vegas, Performer, Cabaret, Inspired

Dressing up is like therapy; I feel better in myself when I've made an effort.

- Paloma Faith

Like, Therapy, Made, Effort

I just have an inability to lie.

- Paloma Faith

Lie, Just, Inability

I'm surrounded by friends and family who are not that impressed by celebrity. They don't have any problem telling me I'm acting like an idiot or I'm not that funny.

- Paloma Faith

Celebrity, Like, Telling, Friends And Family

The freedom that money gives you makes you... well, I wouldn't say happy, but I'd say it gives you diversity.

- Paloma Faith

Freedom, Happy, Money, Diversity

I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.

- Paloma Faith

Eggs, Basket, Like, Nervous

I'm the type of person who, if somebody offers me a free meal, I get excited because you never know where your next free meal is going to come from.

- Paloma Faith

Excited, Next, Offers, Type

It's amazing living alone. I'm very lucky. It's like a refuge.

- Paloma Faith

Amazing, Lucky, Very, Refuge

No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me.

- Paloma Faith

Think, I Think, Ever, Fancy

I just really want to make albums - and however I can, I will.

- Paloma Faith

Want, Will, However, Albums

My mum's always on at me to have children and blames 'that stupid stage thing you do' for me not already having a family.

- Paloma Faith

Always, Having, Mum, Stupid

When I do my shows, it's really cross-generational. Sometimes there's three generations there.

- Paloma Faith

Sometimes, Three, Shows, Generations

I'd rather be on my own than be with a violent man.

- Paloma Faith

Own, My Own, Rather, Violent

I get plenty of, 'Is that song about me?' from men but I just tell them to get over themselves.

- Paloma Faith

Song, Tell, Over, Plenty

All the things that I find beautiful have a darkness about them.

- Paloma Faith

Beautiful, Find, Things, Darkness

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