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Alison Moyet Quotes

When I saw Adele, I thought: ‘I’ll give it an hour before people say I was her,’ just because I was fat. When you watch ‘X Factor,’ you can bet your bottom dollar, every single fat singer sounds like me as far as the judges are concerned. Can you imagine if they did that with every black artist?

– Alison Moyet

When you have kids, it limits you. That was a choice I made.

– Alison Moyet

Of all the soul divas, Gladys Knight was the one for me. Knight’s always been about tone and heart, none of the big showboating or extraneous doodling. She nailed a melody and only played a little around the edges like Ma Staple.

– Alison Moyet

I have lost and put on big batches of weight in my life many, many times. But what concerns me is the idea of being an obese old woman, because I don’t like the idea of being physically incapable in someone else’s hands.

– Alison Moyet

Personally I think women look better with a bit of chub on them.

– Alison Moyet

I was socially awkward for many years. I stuttered, stammered, talked rubbish. I never take up invites to parties, and I’ve been invited to very glamorous things, but I never go.

– Alison Moyet

I was writing and I have three kids. I was occupying my time with them but it was difficult.

– Alison Moyet

I had been with the label since I was 21. The label wanted shiny pop but I didn’t. I found a little independent and we’ve got all these great reviews in England and now it has gone gold.

– Alison Moyet

Yazoo was Vince’s sound ultimately. At the time Vince and I got together he had only recorded one album with Depeche and Depeche were to go on to greater things.

– Alison Moyet

My strength as a singer is my versatility. I find it really frustrating when I’m only expected to show off. The music industry is awash with female acrobats. What happens to the song, and treating it for its sake and not as an ego example?

– Alison Moyet

My weight can swing by four stone.

– Alison Moyet

I have never had another job and I don’t have a mortgage.

– Alison Moyet

It was always important to me that I made a record where I really sang well, and I don’t think it’s happened yet. There’s always a possibility with each album that I might not record again, and I wanted to produce one that I could feel was mine.

– Alison Moyet

It wasn’t like I felt I was on a wave. It was just so easy. It is only afterwards that I thought I really had a bit of good luck going on there with Yazoo.

– Alison Moyet

In the early days, myself and my friends were into punk because we had no money, just very basic instruments and skills. It was more about the ethos and the energy.

– Alison Moyet

I just find P.J. Harvey so mesmerising to watch because she remains unfathomable. She is the kind of woman who makes you rue the day you weren’t born her. She always seems to be the cat that walks alone, and you don’t feel you are supposed to know her.

– Alison Moyet

I went through a string of A&R men who all thought I should be doing something different. One thought I should be a dance diva; another thought I should do Rock n’ Roll; and one thought I shouldn’t even be singing at all!

– Alison Moyet

I was a single parent, and I was prohibited from working.

– Alison Moyet

The press Yazoo were receiving were focused on the voice, This obviously was about trends.

– Alison Moyet

When you have a creative mind it doesn’t stop going.

– Alison Moyet

I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training.

– Alison Moyet

When you find yourself on stage singing and you are embarrassed about what you are singing in front of your peers, then you have to think about your priorities.

– Alison Moyet

I came from a small town and at school in one class there was me, a member from Depeche Mode and someone who went on to join The Cure. That was all in one class of 30 kids.

– Alison Moyet

I have always loved a hard-faced girl. I get that Alison Goldfrapp isn’t easy, and I like her belligerence. She’s deeply sexy and controlled, like a Strict Machine, and it seems to wind the b’jesus out of the women I know. On the outside, I watch and smile and will her on like a twisted silent maiden aunt in the dark corner.

– Alison Moyet

The press gave me a voice too quickly, and that could have unsettled a man who had every right to feel he should be in control of the thing he had created.

– Alison Moyet

I wasn’t good at being affable. You get beyond that and realise the attraction in any human being has more to do with what they give to someone rather than just being face candy.

– Alison Moyet

I love being middle-aged in general. I’m more at peace with myself now. I still have tormented times, but they are few and far between. You don’t feel you have to be the centre of your world when you get older. Becoming a mother had been a turning point which stopped me from being the centre of my world.

– Alison Moyet

The thing with me is, I’m both untidy and I hate mess. But I’m not untidy in communal spaces, like living rooms. My bedroom is havoc.

– Alison Moyet

When you make a lot of money for a record company, they don’t want you to evolve. Growing older, you naturally do.

– Alison Moyet

Becoming famous is a really shocking thing, especially when you don’t have aspirations to it. It got to the point where I would try and avoid making eye contact with anyone. It was freaky, and it just happened overnight. I couldn’t handle it.

– Alison Moyet

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