Kim Wilde Quotations

My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.

The record company really pissed me off when they told me to lose weight. I couldn't be bothered with looking a certain way. So I left the business. I don't regret it.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

When you're together with someone for some time, you will automatically depend on them as if they were a crutch. And then it ends.

I got to show off in front of my husband, who married me as I was stepping out of the business, so he had no idea that I could strut my stuff on the stage.

I don't take myself seriously any more. Sometimes I just garden in my knickers and platform shoes.

You need a bit more to be a pop star than just a good voice.

Performing, I can take it or leave it. Horticulture is far more challenging. I'm absolutely fascinated by it.

When I was 15, I was naive, looked like a grey mouse and felt second choice.

I still tune in to the radio and listen to pop music and enjoy it as much as I ever have.

I want to conquer the world and it seems like my own family is putting a stop to that.

My father has taught me all the tricks of the boys at an early age, which has made me very careful.

My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time.

Real talent will get through whatever the obstacles.

Sex does not exist for me at all. I haven't had a boyfriend for a long time. There were only three or four in my life up until now anyway.

Careers don't seem to be built up in the same way as they were in the 80s.

People want performers, personality and drama, and you got that in the .

I didn't spend much time in America, which probably was a mistake. To someone else, having a number one in America would be enough to get them touring.

I do know what my family has done for me, but they do need to give me some space to let me be myself. There would be some things I would handle differently.

I signed up for the musical Tommy in the West End, where I met my husband.

I was very, very fortunate. I knew that. I've always known that.

Dad is my best mate and I can tell Mum absolutely anything. I really appreciate Mum and Dad. Why are we so close? Young parents, I think. The rock business keeps their minds young.

I have dark brown hair. I've also got a very stern look, and with that colour I would look very gloomy. Blonde looked a lot fresher.

I did drama at school and wrote plays, so getting up and acting or singing in front of people was always something that came natural to me.

That's the way I like pop music to be: write a good song, sing it, and get on with the next before there's time to think about it too much.

As (traffic) worsens I think at some point that issue will have higher priority, ... I don't think people would be interested in a bus if it didn't get them there any quicker.

I've always known that I would be a singer, it was just a matter of when to start. As far as I was concerned, it was taking too long already.

I started going through a bad depression towards the end of my career. My self-esteem was really low. It took me a few years to recover from it.

There was a lot to be said for the situation that existed in the old days, when a singer's writing partner stayed in the background.

You can't close your eyes to the lies perpetrated by dangerous fools / 'cos they're handing out rules

They're still building and testing / But what can we do / Condemning the seas and the land and the trees to a tomb

You can spend your life competing in a world that talks too loud / You can lose your own direction getting lost among the crowd / Confusion - is it any wonder that the road ahead's not clear / Well you can try too hard to find it now I realise it's here

Don't let your dreams escape / The future's ours to shape

And while we destroy / Our children will grow / Not missing the things they'll never know / A crime against them / Against you and me / A crime against all humanity

Snap your fingers and somebody runs / You don't care how they feel just as long as they come / Got your head in the stars now you've come this far / Just who do you think you are?

In the day I can smile though I wanna die / Hold on, hold on / I can keep it together for a little while / and be strong, so strong / But when the sun goes down and I'm all alone / I haven't the strength to fight / That's when my tears give in to the night

Gardening is not something to get on your high horse about or be overwhelmed by. Either you enjoy it or you don't.

I'd got married and wanted to have kids, so had kids, brought them up, did other things, and slowly got back into music. And it feels great, having one foot in the present, writing and covering interesting songs, and having one foot in the past.

Being blonde now doesn't mean Marilyn Monroe vulnerability. Blonde in the Eighties means being in control.

I think that not being loved by your parents or not having a brother or not being liked at school or even wearing glasses can be a lot worse than having a famous father.

I don't mind being laughed at: that's something I really don't mind, and I think that's kept me sane. My ability to laugh at myself and allow others to laugh at me has been my saving grace.

When love's the culmination / of everything you feel / then it's the only thing that's precious / it's the only thing that's real

There is sadness and confusion in our hearts / And the world prepares to fight / as it tears itself apart, it isn't fair

Is our time up and on to the next fire / Got my fingers burnt and cut into the wire.

You're full of insecurities in your 20s - most of the time your heart's being broken, you're having a difficult time finding out who the hell you are, and I was trying to do that in the full glare of the public.

I'm spending nights just dreaming / And playing the music loud / They're banging on the ceiling / They're praying that I'll soon be out.

The big labels have less of a stranglehold on artists and how they record and where they go.

My whole career was launched in such sort of poptastic style with 'Kids In America', and I liked - and like - being poptastic. Songs big on melody, high on energy, lots of attitude... what's wrong with that?