Diana Krall Quotes & Sayings

“You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart.”

“I love music so much I love what I do. I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.”

“I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.”

“Well, you know, it's been interesting because an album is just a snapshot of where you are at that time. Not all pictures of everybody are just in jeans and a 'T' shirt, or a ball gown. You have many different sides and this is a snapshot of where you are at that time.”

“I like to interpret 'Call me a River', as if I'm saying, 'Now you're telling me you love me after all that, and I'm telling you to shove off.' That's my interpretation. But I would never 'say' that because somebody else might interpret the song in another way.”

“So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.”

“Sometimes I can't get out of the character because the story is very intense.”

“You know, I've sung a lot of emotional songs in my life, but when you're writing it yourself, it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.”

“But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.”

“I think that I was being much more uptight about those things before. I feel like I really don't have to prove anything at this point other than what I'm doing.”