Imelda May quote: "People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number one in my life and the best thing that ever happened to me, but I still have fun. I am still myself, but that is made out to seem like I am rebelling against motherhood."

Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in...
IMELDA MAY

I tried to be a goth for a while. I'd pour baby powder on my face and paint my lips black, but t...
IMELDA MAY

At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One tim...
IMELDA MAY

I'm on the road earning my money. I didn't get any million pound record deals. Not unless yo...
IMELDA MAY

I like to escape; I like to write when I go on a walk - I'm kind of very fairy that way. I get i...
IMELDA MAY

I've used a stylist twice, and that was when I didn't have time to go shopping or pick up an...
IMELDA MAY

If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jaz...
IMELDA MAY

Ooooh, I love Nashville! It seems like everywhere you walk, there's great music coming out of ev...
IMELDA MAY

I love punk rock, The Clash, The Ramones, The Cramps. I love where it all came from, and music for m...
IMELDA MAY

I don't see why women have to get naked to sell an album. It's crazy.
IMELDA MAY

When I tell people that I lost my baby weight through breastfeeding, they think I'm exaggerating...
IMELDA MAY

For me, rockabilly is very, very exciting music. It's electric and kind of wild, you know? It...
IMELDA MAY

I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it wa...
IMELDA MAY

Don't lie - when you are 105 years of age - on your deathbed, thinking, 'I should have done ...
IMELDA MAY

I got a great kick being in the Warner Bros. studios - that was really cool. I kept singing the '...
IMELDA MAY

I'm a big believer in 'pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start again.'
IMELDA MAY

I love festivals in that people seem to let their hair down more. I love that people run from stage ...
IMELDA MAY

In my head, I consider 'No Turning Back' my 'dipping the toe in the water' album. It...
IMELDA MAY

I'm in no hurry to get old. But when I do, I'll be out to enjoy every last minute. I see mys...
IMELDA MAY

I don't think the music that I do is nostalgic in any way; I don't think about going back to...
IMELDA MAY

I never miss a vote; I think that's the power of the people. A lot of people fought and died for...
IMELDA MAY

I love to have no plans. It is amazing where your day can turn when you have no plans: meeting peopl...
IMELDA MAY

You have to change your life for yourself, and it's about the fun of getting there - sitting in ...
IMELDA MAY

I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and ...
IMELDA MAY

The Spanish and the American audiences are lunatics. They are very passionate and, like the Irish, t...
IMELDA MAY

American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops t...
IMELDA MAY

In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I...
IMELDA MAY

One thing that did get me into a lot of different types of music was when I was very young, the loca...
IMELDA MAY

I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage...
IMELDA MAY

I always loved the bad girls in the movies. I loved Bette Davis; I loved Katherine Hepburn. I loved ...
IMELDA MAY

I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved ...
IMELDA MAY

In 2008, I was in a London park when I came across a fledgling crow that had fallen from the top of ...
IMELDA MAY

I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote a...
IMELDA MAY

Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or...
IMELDA MAY

My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you wa...
IMELDA MAY

I'd watch old movies with Judy Garland, Shirley Temple and Bette Davis and long to be part of th...
IMELDA MAY

I got my first leopard print coat when I was 15. I nearly got beat up, but I was happy with it.
IMELDA MAY

I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
IMELDA MAY

Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selli...
IMELDA MAY

I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to ...
IMELDA MAY

I'm the youngest of five - three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven o...
IMELDA MAY

I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.
IMELDA MAY

I was brought up with old-fashioned values. I wasn't allowed to have a boyfriend until I finishe...
IMELDA MAY

I would love to work with Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, B.B. King. I'd love to do something with Arc...
IMELDA MAY

I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack...
IMELDA MAY

You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesti...
IMELDA STAUNTON

If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates.
IMELDA STAUNTON

I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better ...
IMELDA STAUNTON

I've always liked new writing.
IMELDA STAUNTON

You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.
IMELDA STAUNTON

I've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego.
IMELDA STAUNTON

I never wanted for anything. We went to Ireland for holidays every year. I was 14 when we first went...
IMELDA STAUNTON

Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center...
IMELDA STAUNTON

Fortunately my career has never been about how I look, it's about how I can be.
IMELDA STAUNTON

We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really ...
IMELDA STAUNTON

To me, it's really not about how I look - it's about who I can be. It is my job to bring the...
IMELDA STAUNTON

We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it...
IMELDA STAUNTON

Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently...
IMELDA STAUNTON

A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have t...
IMELDA STAUNTON

At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did lo...
IMELDA STAUNTON

I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slig...
IMELDA STAUNTON

You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't ...
IMELDA STAUNTON

They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my f...
IMELDA MARCOS

Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look...
IMELDA MARCOS

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love ...
IMELDA MARCOS

If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. T...
IMELDA MARCOS

The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in...
IMELDA MARCOS

It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god,...
IMELDA MARCOS

Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty...
IMELDA MARCOS

I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
IMELDA MARCOS

We practically own everything in the Philippines.
IMELDA MARCOS

I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it...
IMELDA MARCOS

I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.
IMELDA MARCOS

I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
IMELDA MARCOS

My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fenc...
IMELDA MARCOS

I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
IMELDA MARCOS

They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful...
IMELDA MARCOS

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
IMELDA MARCOS

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes. I had one thousand and sixty.
IMELDA MARCOS

I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
IMELDA MARCOS

“‘Nouveau riche’ is better than ‘no riche.’”
IMELDA MARCOS

I was born ostentatious. They will list my name in the dictionary someday. They will use 'Imeldific'...
IMELDA MARCOS

I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
IMELDA MARCOS

When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers...
IMELDA MARCOS

Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
IMELDA MARCOS

People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to ...
IMELDA MARCOS

I think the first 10 years of my daughter's life were my mother's happiest, because she coul...
IMELDA STAUNTON

Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an in...
IMELDA STAUNTON

I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what mak...
IMELDA STAUNTON

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of fami...
IMELDA MARCOS

Children should always be brave and do something about bullying. It's not okay to stand by and l...
IMELDA STAUNTON

Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
IMELDA MARCOS

The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty ...
IMELDA MARCOS

If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. T...
IMELDA MARCOS

Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949,...
IMELDA MARCOS

They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extr...
IMELDA MARCOS

Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look lik...
IMELDA MARCOS

I think that's a very kinky issue with the panties and bras. That's the thing that they will display...
IMELDA MARCOS

People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be s...
IMELDA MARCOS

I think it is incredible the way it has shaped up in the last few years. India has the courage to sh...
IMELDA MARCOS

Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific pla...
IMELDA MARCOS

I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not ver...
IMELDA MARCOS

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.
IMELDA MARCOS

Marcos deserves it,
IMELDA MARCOS

If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.
IMELDA MARCOS

It is terribly important to do certain things, such as wear overembroidered dresses. After all, the ...
IMELDA MARCOS

I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was always in canvas shoes. I di...
IMELDA MARCOS

The one good thing is that I get a lot more good scripts coming through my letterbox. 'Vera Drak...
IMELDA STAUNTON

A lot of film stars are just playing themselves in different frocks.
IMELDA STAUNTON

You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesti...
IMELDA STAUNTON

The Philippines is a terrible name, coming from Spain. Phillip II was the father of the inquisition,...
IMELDA MARCOS

Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. I...
IMELDA STAUNTON

Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
IMELDA MARCOS

The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and ...
IMELDA MARCOS

I am beyond logic and rationality.
IMELDA MARCOS

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.
IMELDA MARCOS

Don't look too healthy or they'll send you to Washington to testify.
IMELDA MARCOS

Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look ...
IMELDA MARCOS

I don't think it's that I don't like Sondheim. It's that I find it really... I don&#...
IMELDA STAUNTON

I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I...
IMELDA MARCOS

It's not as if it's something I ever thought I would get.
IMELDA STAUNTON

I seem to be doing all my own cooking and shopping and washing.
IMELDA STAUNTON

Dan Crawford was an extraordinary man who single-handedly kept one of the most unique theatres in Lo...
IMELDA STAUNTON

Working with Mike was shocking, terrifying, exhilarating, ... It was the best job of my life. It's r...
IMELDA STAUNTON

There's so much room for us to grow. It's just a matter of finding the right market for us.
IMELDA MADARANG

They need to do something because now there's 12 million. In five years, it might be 20 million.
IMELDA LOPEZ

My family has had hard, difficult times, but we've always been together. Now, I have to start all ov...
IMELDA LOPEZ

It was a very unexpected situation. My children and I are saddened. We don't know what the future ho...
IMELDA LOPEZ

If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.
IMELDA MARCOS

I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.
IMELDA STAUNTON

The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.
BRIAN MAY

The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.
BRIAN MAY

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
ROLLO MAY

Einstein got most of the things right about black holes. I'm not an expert, I must admit.
BRIAN MAY

No, I can tell you one of the first things that happens to a home secretary when they arrive in the ...
THERESA MAY

The aim is to create here in Britain a really hostile environment for illegal migration.
THERESA MAY

It is very important that people see there is a bright future, and we can re-engage that entrepreneu...
THERESA MAY

The British people have spoken, and there will be a different future for the U.K. - different but a ...
THERESA MAY

Many British people of different faiths follow religious codes and practices and benefit a great dea...
THERESA MAY

The Government cannot just be consumed by Brexit. There is so much more to do.
THERESA MAY

I've been clear that Brexit means Brexit.
THERESA MAY

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!
MAY SARTON

And it is crucial of course that chief constables are able to make decisions within their budgets ab...
THERESA MAY

Now there is a growing feeling, it's something that David Cameron led on actually, he said this ...
THERESA MAY

We've got a first class leader at the moment. David Cameron is dealing with the issues that he w...
THERESA MAY

No matter what strategy is employed in either corn or soybeans, producers must understand their prod...
ALAN MAY

With carryover supplies of corn expected to be more than 2 billion bushels, producers should plan to...
ALAN MAY

Quite frankly, I don't think that would be possible with over-the-counter trading.
ALAN MAY

The changes just simply continue and so its just different kinds of technologies in the last four to...
ALAN MAY

We do get a lot of questions ranging from how to price corn to how to price cattle and, quite frankl...
ALAN MAY

The compelling drive to get at the truth is what improves us all as psychologists and is part and pa...
ROLLO MAY

If, before 2020, there is a choice between further spending cuts, more borrowing and tax rises, the ...
THERESA MAY

A fear is a reaction to a specific danger, to which the individual can make a specific adjustment. B...
ROLLO MAY

It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.
LOUISE MAY

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselve...
ROLLO MAY

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new r...
ROLLO MAY

There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one lo...
MAY SARTON

The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten simila...
ROLLO MAY

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
MAY SARTON

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
MAY SARTON

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasion...
MAY SARTON

The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact t...
MAY SARTON

The only thing experience teaches you is what you can
ELAINE MAY

Depression is the inability to construct a future.
ROLLO MAY

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
MAY SARTON

Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.
ROLLO MAY

May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best -- out of it we try...
MAY SARTON

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfil...
ROLLO MAY

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
ROLLO MAY

Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.
MAY SARTON

Depression is the inability to construct a future
ROLLO MAY

A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies
ROLLO MAY

A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a compo...
MAY SARTON

Most people have to talk so they won't hear.
MAY SARTON

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
MAY SARTON

It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identif...
ROLLO MAY

A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless.
MAY SARTON

Let's start getting some free trade agreements started as soon as we can. We need to get on with...
THERESA MAY

In the utopian aim of removing all power and aggression from human behavior, we run the risk of remo...
ROLLO MAY

On gay adoption I have changed my mind.
THERESA MAY

May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try ...
MAY SARTON

Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours eve...
THERESA MAY

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfil...
ROLLO MAY

Communities need to feel that they can accommodate people. Rather than feeling that it's not pos...
THERESA MAY

Memory depends mainly upon myth. Some even occurs in our minds, in actuality or in fantasy; we form ...
ROLLO MAY

I think music is about our internal life. It's part of the way people touch each other. That'...
BRIAN MAY

Labour ministers often look puzzled when reports show that Britain has one of the lowest levels of s...
THERESA MAY

I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall.
MIKE MAY

There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those on...
MAY SARTON

I will be ruthless in cutting out waste, streamlining structures and improving efficiency.
THERESA MAY

The fun thing about getting older is finding younger people to mentor.
MIKE MAY

Human dignity is based upon freedom, and freedom upon human dignity. The one presupposes the other.
ROLLO MAY

While one might laugh at the meaningless boredom of people a decade or two ago, the emptiness has fo...
ROLLO MAY

Social acceptance, 'being liked,' has so much power because it holds the feelings of lonelin...
ROLLO MAY

Many modern people have gone so far in their dependence on others for their feeling of reality that ...
ROLLO MAY

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
ROLLO MAY

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to thr...
ROLLO MAY

One does not become fully human painlessly.
ROLLO MAY

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be marrie...
ROLLO MAY

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into n...
ROLLO MAY

People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number one in my life and the best thing that ever happened to me, but I still have fun. I am still myself, but that is made out to seem like I am rebelling against motherhood.

Imelda May

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