Shania Twain hates the idea of "being put in a box" when it comes to her career
The 59-year-old singer is one of the best-selling artists of all time with record sales of more than 100 million and is known for hits such as 'Man! I Feel Like A Woman' but admitted that she starts to "panic" if she is not given free will to explore things
11 February 2025
She told People: "If I feel like I'm being put in a box, I start to panic.
"I run in any direction I can because I don't want to be contained. I have to be able to find my own way.
"Sometimes I'm not even sure where I'm going myself. How can somebody else tell me that, right? So I need the freedom to explore and to land wherever that exploration takes me."
The 'You're Still The One' songstress has also branched out into acting, having appeared in the 2019 film 'I Still Believe' and played Mrs Potts in 'Beauty and the Beast Live!' in 2022 and will always "champion" any performer who wants to diversify themselves.
She said: "If somebody's already dictating that, it just ruins it all for me. It spoils the fun and it kills the passion of the creativity that I'm creating as I go.
"If that gets interrupted, I think you really kill the spirit of the artist.
"I'm always championing anybody that does things that are unexpected by the industry, or unexpected by the audience."
"They may not have seen it coming, but the artist does have a sense of where they want to go exploring, and I really think it's wonderful that they do, that they explore it, and they take it to whatever limit interests them. We get bored too, if we're not allowed to stay open and channel things outside of what would be considered our normal or what's expected of us!"
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