I don’t have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.
PALOMA FAITHI get to know my regular fans, and they inspire me.
More Paloma Faith Quotes
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I really like to please people, and I think it’s a symptom of being an only child.
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It’s celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.
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I’m very affected by what I watch and read.
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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.
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I don’t feel I fit in with morning television because I’m like a vampire and I like to stay up late.
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My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.
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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.’
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When I do my shows, it’s really cross-generational. Sometimes there’s three generations there.
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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.
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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.
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I get to know my regular fans, and they inspire me.
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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.
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Sometimes people fear the truth. They’d rather not speak to you than know what you really think.
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Curvy is something to be proud of.
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You feel a sense of elation seeing yourself on a billboard.
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We all get old, but I always say the skinny, pretty girls will be screwed.
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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.
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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.
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Working with Terry Gilliam was magic – I’ve been watching his films since I was little.
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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.
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I lend people money, but I’d never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn’t get it back.
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No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I’m taken. Either that or no one fancies me.
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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.
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