I follow the Bulletproof diet - it is based on grass-fed steak, vegetables, no carbs and a lot of butter.
— KT Tunstall
I really enjoy tech, but I'm not voracious - I'll find stuff because I want to use it, not because I'm interested in what's out there. It's a sort of necessity relationship.
Getting to know myself changed everything. It's the best thing I've ever done.
Touring is such a major sacrifice, especially as you get older, to be away from friends and family and home and any sort of routine or home comforts.
The only thing I know about being Asian is that my hair is black and my eyelashes are straight and I have strange eyebrows.
Criticism only hurts when there's some truth in it.
When I was seventeen, I left Scotland to go to Kent, a well-to-do boarding school in Connecticut, where there was a contingent of really naughty kids.
I often talk too much and don't listen enough.
When I tried to get a record deal, only one label wanted me. The rest said 'oh, we've already got a girl with a guitar.' Can you imagine them ever saying that to a guy?
I know it sounds weird, but the kind of music I write isn't the kind of music that I listen to, which is quite underground, left-of-centre stuff like PJ Harvey and Tom Waits.
I guess if you make quality music then it has a longevity and it will find its place.
I write songs, I play a guitar and that's it.
I get so frustrated with all these so-called singer-songwriters coming out and they don't write!
When you make an album, you have to decide how much you want to give away; you have to decide how much you want to open up. Because the more you open up the more rewarding it can be but the more dangerous it can be. If you really open up and it gets panned it's really painful.
I would never pigeon hole myself stylistically because I just don't know what I am going to want to do next.
Most of my friends in London are musicians, but the ones in Scotland have proper jobs.
Skiing fast feels like complete freedom to me.
I've got my roots in Northern Ireland - my biological father's side of the family were from Belfast.
Politics for me is when I feel a personal engagement between people: I don't trust politicians.
I joined a drama group when I was eight. It was the first time I'd made the connection with an audience.
I'm a huge fan of The Chemical Brothers and the Ninja Tune label and a lot of the stuff that they put out like DJ Shadow but I think, out of all of them, Leftism really just excited my musical brain in terms of the way that they mixed real instruments with dance tracks.
My maternal grandmother was Cantonese, so I'm a quarter Chinese and half Irish and a quarter Scottish and raised by English parents living in Scotland.
I had a job for a year, working in a high-quality whiskey-and-wine shop.
I was a child badminton wizard.
I believe that the Universe is like a single organism, and we are all little nerve endings feeding our experiences back into a whole.
My father had Parkinson's, though he actually died following a bicycle accident.
It's a shame that when you've actually lived some life and have something to write about, they're saying you're too old to come out and play it.
Sales have never been a source of joy for me in terms of my music. It's really about who's turning up at your shows, what people are saying about it.
It strikes me as very odd for someone to think, 'You know what, if I put on a bikini, I may shift some more records,' but it happens. If people are comfortable with that, fine, but it's not something that would ever cross my mind.
Like a lot of young people growing up in the middle of nowhere, I was desperate to leave my small town behind, but music reconnected me to my roots.
I have always been a great fan of albums that are cathartic and that you can listen to them together and you can relate to them as a group of people or as friends.
Albums tend to dictate what they need. Every time I have made an album it sort of feels like it is decided for me how that album is going to sound; it is not really a cerebral decision where you sit down and decide that you are going to make an album that sounds like 'this.'
I've always been a huge fan of Beck.
Use Creme de la Mer balm when your skin gets dry on a plane. You can put it on your cheeks to give your face a bit of a glow after you land.
The only regular exercise I do is playing my shows, which are basically two hours of aerobics.
For me, success is being happy. I used to think it was lots of houses, lots of record sales, lots of stories to tell. But some massive life changes, getting a divorce and my dad dying, led to a huge period of reflection.
KIN' is basically a kind of rite of passage, scars-and-all celebration of going through difficult things in your life and being better for it.
Basically, my mum and dad bought me a CD player for my 14th birthday. They didn't really listen to music at all, but my dad had a couple of tapes that he'd listen to, like Tom Lehrer. My dad was a physicist and Tom Lehrer was like this really weird Harvard class professor, who was really cool because he was also a satirist and pianist.
I've never considered myself a locked-down straight person. I've had relationships with girls.
I can play piano, classical flute, guitar, bass and I'm OK on drums.
My father passing really, in many ways, was a gift: It made me look at my own happiness and sense of self and realize that I wasn't happy. I had checked all these boxes and achieved all this stuff that I thought made you happy. And I was miserable.
I used to take it much more to heart. Now I realise that negativity has almost everything to do with the person delivering it and very little to do with you yourself.
Touring can get really hard if you're not hitting some fashionable zeitgeist.
I'm shocked at how much I can talk about myself.
I didn't find fame particularly difficult, partly because I'm proud to be able to say I'm the most unrecognisable face in pop.
I can do the vocal acrobatics but I really try not to. I've always been drawn to singers who sing it like it is, pure, straight down the line: Ella Fitzgerald, Patti Smith, Carole King. Simplicity is really important to me.
I was very into tribal techno and used to go and really lose myself in great dance music.
Music for me has always been a vent and has always been a great outlet.
If your parents only listen to jazz or folk, you're like one of those trees you see in botanic gardens that have wire frames on them - you grow into that shape, you follow it or you have to break away from it. But I didn't have influences to embrace or kick against - I also had no idea what anything was.
I'd love to go to Easter Island, Hawaii, Iceland and Antarctica.
