You don’t hear that much about me being a white and singing soul music in England, but I get the feeling that in America it’s really a big thing. It’s like, ‘God, look at the color of her skin.’ Lisa Stansfield Read Quote
If you are a soul singer, you are a soul singer. If you are a heavy metal singer, then you are a heavy metal singer. What’s color got to do with it? I don’t go around thinking, ‘I sing soul music and I’m white.’ I just sing the way I feel. Lisa Stansfield Read Quote
People come up to me and sing, ‘Been around the world and I-I-I-I… ‘ all the time. Lisa Stansfield Read Quote
I always really loved soul music but all my friends were into the new romantic scene. I’d go to new romantic clubs and then go home and listen to soul music. I was sort of ashamed of listening to disco and soul music! Lisa Stansfield Read Quote
Manchester has always been a massively innovative city, loads of great scientific findings have come from Manchester. The first computer in the world was there and took up a whole building. So Manchester has always been very innovative. Lisa Stansfield Read Quote
It’s good to write about love because it never goes out of fashion. And I’m quite a romantic. Lisa Stansfield Read Quote
I’m like two different people. The way I sing comes from the music I listened to when I was younger, from black American R&B singers. My speaking voice is something else. It’s what my mum and dad taught me. Lisa Stansfield Read Quote
I was happy to carry on without children because I was completely immersed in my work and my career. I only heard the clock ticking in my late 30s, and when my mother Marion died the year I turned 40 it hit me with such a force that we ended up having IVF, which turned out to be unsuccessful. Lisa Stansfield Read Quote
When all my friends were into punk, I’d be singing versions of soul ballads. I thought, ‘Oh my God, I don’t want them to know I’m doing this.’ But I really enjoyed singing those songs. Lisa Stansfield Read Quote