Top 17 Quotes by Dido Armstrong

I'm too much of a control freak.

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence.

I write about the things I feel strongly about.

Life for rent means that my life isn't really my own, I only rented it for a while, but if I don't manage to buy it, to own it, then nothing of what I think is mine is really mine.

I always want to bring emotion across in a straightforward way. I don't want to get histrionic when I'm singing. For me that's just not interesting; it goes too far down one road.

In fact, I'd just like to own something. Everyone thinks I'm glamorous, rich and famous but all I've got is some recording equipment and a battered old BMW.

I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted to do.

I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own.

It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else.

The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into an opposite direction. You can't blame anybody for it.