Tegan Quin Quotes & Sayings

I want to show girls you don't have to get married and have kids and give up you dreams. You can conquer the world. YOu can play in front of a crowd of 20,000 people, and you can own that shit. — Tegan Quin

You've got your lights turned so they can see you. The very best of what you've got to offer. — Tegan Quin

I'm stripped and vital, and I see rules that almost fit. And if I voice my opinion, will you stay and sit? And as I stand here screaming in despair, I say yes this is my life and yes you should care. — Tegan Quin

The lights are off and the sun if finally setting, the night sky is changing overhead — Tegan Quin

I don't need company in the company of you. And I don't need love, 'Cause your love will do. And I've got you. And you've got me. And that's all we need. — Tegan Quin

Don't live your life like a movie. Always thinkin you could've been something. Don't live your life for me or for anyone. You live your life as if you're one. — Tegan Quin

Dignified in what she does, when she sings the smile that she brings to all of you unaware of what's to come, I said tell me what's to come. — Tegan Quin

I cried so hard that you pushed me further away. I screamed so loud you called the police on me. I got so city girl on you. — Tegan Quin

I'm always right, always wrong. Dressing bad's like loving you there is nothing i haven't worn. Nothing, I haven't said before. You are nothing I haven't felt before. — Tegan Quin

I hear noises in the darkness, I hear sadness in your voice, I hear noises in the darkness, I hear sadness inside you. — Tegan Quin

So they're looking for a new face, with a voice to go along. I can tell you right now that ain't my style. I don't do no sing alongs, with my freedom. — Tegan Quin

I'm capsized, staring on the edge of safe. — Tegan Quin

Where do you go with your broken heart in tow? What do you do with the left over you? And how do you know, when to let go? Where does the good go, where does the good go? — Tegan Quin

Stick your hands inside of mu pockets, keep them warm while I'm still here — Tegan Quin

So what, I lied, I lied to me too. So what, I lied, I lied to me too. Hold out for the ones you know will love you. Hide out from the ones you know will love you. You, you too.Dark you can't come soon enough for me. — Tegan Quin

He sat me down. He said he was incomplete. He thinks true love's gonna get him back on his feet. He said you only find love once in your life. So I guess when you find it you're gonna hold it right? You'll hold it right? — Tegan Quin

Sara: Tegan just recently discovered that unicorns don't exist.
Tegan: I just thought they were extinct. — Tegan Quin

Music is about love. Music is love. Music is the way you talk to the person you like. — Tegan Quin

One time in your life
You've got the route in hand
But the map is stuck
They said it's not your fault
The tires are tired the camera moves
And your driver's been pulled — Tegan Quin

If I gave you my number would it still be the same If I saved you from drowning? — Tegan Quin

Make a map of what you see,
Direct pain effectively. — Tegan Quin

Endless nights took on my whole life. Or so I thought. It turns out that all your friends, they were just mean, dressed up. — Tegan Quin

Don't be so hard on yourself. You won't get better till you get worse, yeah you send a little smile my way. And don't be so hard on yourself. You won't get better til you get worse, yeah you send a little love my way. — Tegan Quin

We, gays, can get married in Canada. We let heterosexuals too, but that was a huge thing, we had to have a referendum and a vote, it's crazy! But then we were like, if they want to get married.. that's cool. That's gonna destroy their relationships, but.. Heterosexuals deserve the same rights as homosexuals. — Tegan Quin

This is the last honest look I'll ever give. — Tegan Quin

I feel you in my bones. You're knocking at my windows. You're slow to letting me go. And I know this feeling, This feeling in my bones. — Tegan Quin

Maybe I would have been something you'd be good at. Maybe you would have been something I'd be good at. — Tegan Quin

Climbed up on the rainbow
Just to see if I'd fall off — Tegan Quin

Come together. Twins Forever. — Tegan Quin

There's a chance I'll start to wonder if this was the thing to do. I'll start to wonder if this was the thing to do. — Tegan Quin

You went away. Cause you said that you can't stand me. So I went away. I was sure that you can't stand me. Well I don't think we have to be like this forever. Is there more to life than love and being together? — Tegan Quin

Go ahead, try to figure out what my future looks like. — Tegan Quin

If you've got it to give, You've got to give it all. If you've got it to give, You've got to give it all. Oh give it all to me. — Tegan Quin

I'm the type of girl,
When you fall in love,
You fall forever. — Tegan Quin

I got uncertain from this, I'll be perfect from now on. But all my promises, they're out the window once you're gone. You pack your bags. You say I love you but I cannot stay. — Tegan Quin

Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying.
We decide to go out walking the whole time that you're talking.
Convinced that you're living whole time that I'm dying. — Tegan Quin

Yes I'll come get you, and I will bring you home.
I'll come get you, and I will bring you home.
I'll come get you, and I'll say: Welcome home. — Tegan Quin

I'm infamous for being infamous. I don't think you're so famous miss. I miss everything, When you're away from me. — Tegan Quin

I feel you in my heart,and I don't even know you. — Tegan Quin

If you're a sports star and you say 'faggot' on the courts, you get fined. But if you're in music and you say it 234 times, you get an MTV music award. — Tegan Quin

Begging ocean please, help me drown these memories. All I need to hear is that you're not mine,you're not mine. — Tegan Quin

Hardly happy at all, and I'm ready to take the fall. We pay for the stupid things we've done where I come from. Can you sit through this? Or is it gonna be too deep? — Tegan Quin

All around me new love and it makes me sad. All around me feel assured that you'll be back, if I imagine you, body next to another. — Tegan Quin

What I don't know don't keep me hostage. It's your love that locks me up and I want you to know that I love the way you make my heart tear up. — Tegan Quin

I used to be free spirited, now I'm just free of sleep. I got a burning passion in my throat. I got a burning passion inside me. — Tegan Quin

It's not just all physical
I'm the type who will get oh so critical — Tegan Quin

LIve your life as if you're one. — Tegan Quin

Don't you think that I've been giving up?
Don't you think that I've been giving up?Change,
I take the blame. — Tegan Quin

Sara and I both have this very self-deprecating, almost abusive way of looking at ourselves. We both feel like we can be very destructive and very pessimistic and very tortured and very weak, but in a weird way those are some of our best qualities. — Tegan Quin

Hey hey hey, you had your time. Ding! my turn. — Tegan Quin

What I love about being queer is ... Everything. I like that it makes me different, and I like that it makes people uncomfortable sometimes. I like that it makes people ask me lots of questions about things they probably would not normally ask people about their relationships or lifestyles. And most of all I love being queer because i get to have a girlfriend. — Tegan Quin

I felt you in my legs
Before I even met you — Tegan Quin

I love Sara's music and there's no one else i'd rather share a face with and I try to remember that I actually enjoy being around her. — Tegan Quin

Every moment was that moment, every day was that day, every second was that second, and I've lost myself again. — Tegan Quin

Even before people knew us as Tegan and Sara, we were stared at and studied. We've been different our whole lives. It started with being twins and then being gay and then being musicians, so we've had 32 years of dealing with being fringe people. — Tegan Quin

We're strangers, we're not friends. I hate this, and I hate them.And I found out that you're angry, and you're sorry you ever met me — Tegan Quin

How can they ask why I feel so angry? Do you see my problem if I never explain it?
But then there's you asking me how long. Say something, it's taken me so long. — Tegan Quin

All I said to you, all i did for you, seems so silly to me now. — Tegan Quin

I am disappointed every morning that I wake up. And I am disappointed by the feeling Of waking up next to you. — Tegan Quin

When I wrote this song I felt pretty unoriginal because everybody writes love songs, and everybody feels like their love is the most important and when their love ends and they get their heart broken, that nobody understands. And ... that's ridiculous, but so am I. — Tegan Quin

You slip your hands inside my pockets.
Tell me nothing else would do. Without me, you can't live. And, you slip your heart into my chest. They both become one of the strongest pairs when strangers come. — Tegan Quin

Hard core superstar by far you're the ultimate star. Do you wanna be a superstar? Well that's what you are. You're gonna be a star. Do you wanna be a superstar? — Tegan Quin

Don't be so cruel to me. Don't promise me anything. I've got everything that i need. I need love in a good way. — Tegan Quin

Will you ever use common sense, I hear it comes pretty cheap. And if I speak more clearly, if I make more sense. Will you shut your mouth. You won't come across so dense. Close your eyes and then you free your mind. — Tegan Quin

When we were doing interviews for our bio, I described hearing that song for the first time to be like Sara was standing on my chest. I just felt really sad, and that was having heard all the other songs in order leading up to that one. I know that when Sara was writing these songs it was during the end of her relationship and it was someone she'd been friends with for almost ten years and been with for four years. It was just the psyche of it, when you've known someone for half your life, literally, and then have to leave them, and not necessarily because you want to but just because it's the right thing to do, and it's just not healthy and you're not good anymore, there's no growth and you have to have growth. And when I hear that song, the idea of that all happening just makes me sick to my stomach a little bit. But it's in an enjoyable way. — Tegan Quin

Let them say what they will, 'cause they will anyhow. Let them say what they will, 'cause they will anyhow. — Tegan Quin

I'm a frosted lemon coward — Tegan Quin

I saved up all my sunshine
Just to see you more clear
I'm a little short on solar
And I haven't given in — Tegan Quin

There's something so divided, Don't worry about me I'll be fine, Don't live your life for me or for anyone. Live your life as if you're one. — Tegan Quin

All I want to get is a little bit closer
All I want to know is, can you come a little closer?
Here comes the breath before we get a little bit closer
Here comes the rush before we touch, come a little closer — Tegan Quin

Promise me you'll never go away.
Promise me you'll always stay. — Tegan Quin

I was a fool for love, I was a fool. — Tegan Quin

You wait up for me I don't wake up for you. Would you like the company or are you sick of me. When your love lets you go you only want love more. Even when love wasn't what you were looking for
Speak slow, tell me love where do we go. — Tegan Quin

I want the ocean right now. I want the ocean right now. I get so jealous that I can't even work. — Tegan Quin

I was all alone, you were all I had. Love you, you were all mine. Love me, I was yours right. I was yours right. — Tegan Quin

I'll get right on right about you, you've got trouble right about now, you've got trouble right about now. — Tegan Quin

The time you've got me running. The time, you've got me tired. Well I've got more for the world than this.And I've got love that I need to give. — Tegan Quin

Calm down, I'm calling you to say I'm capsized, staring on the edge of safe. Calm down, I'm calling back to say I'm home now I,m coming around, coming around nobody likes to but I really like to cry nobody likes me maybe if I cry. — Tegan Quin

I feel like I wouldn't like me if I met me and I feel like you wouldn't like me if you met me. — Tegan Quin

Don't bend, don't bleed, don't beg, don't scream, don't whine, don't fight, don't tell me. Don't tell me, don't tell me. Don't feel, don't tear, don't kiss, don't care, don't touch, don't want me. Don't want me, don't want me. Something's so sick about this, my misery's so addictive. I'm halfway there watching Northshore from the floor singing to you over my shoulder. — Tegan Quin

So I'm gonna write it down to scream it out, and I'm never gonna be the same again. Fear is the color you've all exposed, now I gotta get up here and prove the importance of my clothes of my pose. I suppose, again. — Tegan Quin

Every second I spend waiting,
Drags me closer to this grave.
I'm not alone.
No, I'm just on my own. — Tegan Quin

I work so much, I miss the sun shine away. I sleep so little, Watch the stars fade into day. — Tegan Quin

Hold out for the ones you know will love you. — Tegan Quin

I don't want to live my life like a story. Always thinkin I could've been something. Don't run along side and control me. Just film away and let me be. — Tegan Quin

I'm still missing you. Well I guess that I have, I guess that I have never really had you. — Tegan Quin

Lets be twins forever. — Tegan Quin

You are not a bad person because you are gay. You are you because you are you and you were meant to be you so be you proudly. — Tegan Quin

All of the things that you promised me that you'd be, now your hands are tired.
And all of the things that you promised me that you'd need, now my hands are tired. — Tegan Quin

It's love that leaves and breaks the seal of always thinking you would be real, happy and healthy, strong and calm, where does the good go? — Tegan Quin

My whole life revolves around your absence until I can't remember what I do, what I know. Or where I go. — Tegan Quin

When your love lets you go you only want love more, even when love wasn't what you were looking for. — Tegan Quin

I listened in
Yes I'm guilty of this
You should know this — Tegan Quin

Imagine you're so far away no matter what you do, no matter what you say, you couldn't stop the world for a moment. — Tegan Quin

I wake up exhausted it's not morning. It's back to sleep to re-dream me. We're alone and we're happy. But there you are, angry with me — Tegan Quin

I don't know how
No don't know to hold you
Without shaking
No I'm not aware of how
I could possibly love you
Without aching — Tegan Quin

I won't regret saying this, this thing that I'm saying. Is it better than keeping my mouth shut? That goes without saying. Call, break it off call, break my own heart. — Tegan Quin

You've got the freedom to walk out if you drag you down. You've got the freedom to walk out, If they drag you down. If they drag you, If they drag you. Walk out. — Tegan Quin

The best part of having a relationship is getting to call the person or lay down next to them and tell them all the crazy things that happened to you all day long, and in the end that's what it's about, kids. It's not about the sex, it's not about the money that they give you or whatever. It's not about how good-looking they are, it's about, can they listen to you talk for hours and hours and hours about stupid shit that doesn't matter. — Tegan Quin

So let's make things physical,
I won't treat you like you're oh so typical — Tegan Quin