Taylor Dayne Quotes (29 Quotes)


    I do boot camp now. I go to Barry's. I really enjoy it because it's for one hour and it's just balls out. You're dying by the end of the hour.

    Last thing I need is to take LSD or mushrooms.


    That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.

    So when I'm working out I do things extreme.


    I grew up in New York and my friends and I were hanging out on 2nd Avenue and 8th Street. I wore a lot of clothing by Nasty Habits.

    To me, it was about finding new opportunities. I know my voice touches people. It has for years. I can't give that up.

    I just try to get out of my own way because if anyone is their own worst enemy, it's usually you.

    I touched a lot of people internationally, and Rodney's a very smart business man, he knows you have to go for a broader and bigger audience.

    My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.

    I smoked some pot as a kid, but I just never did drugs.

    My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.

    My current mantra is that sometimes we need teachers in our lives. I never had that in my life, parents and stuff like that; I tried to stay on the outside of them or anybody that had that kind of influence.

    I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.

    All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.

    If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.

    And I'm also looking for a comeback record and it has to touch a lot of people.

    Well, honey, I had the million dollar houses, I had the car, I had the horse, I had the barn; I had everything. Was I set free? I didn't even know what that meant.

    By the second tour I had rice cakes and hummus with me, and I was jumping rope in my room.

    I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.

    I started working out with a trainer and I immediately saw results.

    If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.

    This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.

    Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences.

    Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.

    I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.

    When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.

    But once you strip that down, you realize it's all about a voice, like a Norah Jones - that's inspiring to me.

    I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.


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