Dido Armstrong
Dido Armstrong
Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong, known as Dido, is a British singer and songwriter. Dido attained international success with her debut album No Angel. It sold over 21 million copies worldwide, and won several awards, including the MTV Europe Music Award for Best New Act, two NRJ Awards for Best New Act and Best Album, and two Brit Awards for Best British Female and Best Album. Her next album, Life for Rent, continued her success with the hit...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth25 December 1971
It's much better when I go out with my mates and we stop talking about me like I'm some sort of egomaniac. It's great when we can just have a drink.
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.
I'm so lonely I don't even want to be with myself anymore.
It's great to go on your own and discover new things just for yourself, to meet new people and all that. If you're all on your own, then there is nobody there to guide you and you have to make all the decisions for yourself. It's quite liberating in a way.
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.
Why don't I watch the ocean?My lover's gone.No earthly ships will ever bring him home againbring him home again...
I get up, go shopping, clean the flat, cook my boyfriend's dinner. It's great selling records, but it doesn't mean you have to turn into a freak.
Inside everybody's hiding something.
I write about the things I feel strongly about.
It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I loved it.
I haven't ever really found a place that I call homeI never stick around quite long enough to make itI apologize that once again I'm not in loveBut it's not as if I mindthat your heart ain't exactly breaking.
It's all right to make mistakes, you're only humanInside everybody's hiding something.
Looking back, I think that's why I did music. I'd get home from school and the house would be so quiet.
I'm too much of a control freak.