Sia Quotes
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I don't want to be critiqued about the way that I look on the Internet.
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I think it's impossible not to see something you wanted happen to someone else and maybe wish it for yourself.
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I have never made money selling records. I have never really made money touring, either, or with merchandise, surprisingly. But I do make money by just having my songs in the background of television shows or in commercials or movie trailers. That's been really good.
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When I was outed by Perez Hilton as bisexual, I suddenly started being asked personal questions, which was really difficult.
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So where a lot of people will spend three weeks on one song, I will write 10 in three weeks. Maybe the song that they sculpt is going to be as successful as just one of the 10 that I wrote.
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That's why 'Chandelier' was interesting to me... I wrote the song because there's so many party-girl anthems in pop. And I thought it'd be interesting to do a different take on that.
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I was really bored of making downtempo albums.
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I don't want to have to do production, which is very technical. I don't enjoy that.
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I think that it would be unwise of us not to believe that there is life outside of us, intelligent life. And so I do believe in aliens.
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I'm trying to have some control over my image.
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I appreciate my music is famous, but I'd rather my face wasn't so that I can just live a normal life.
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I used to be addicted to 'Reader's Digest' growing up. I would read the stories about love, and I guess that's where I became a hopeless romantic. I draw from that a lot.
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When I write promotionally, I guess I give away the ones I'm less connected to.
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If a transporter could send me from the bed with the dogs watching crappy TV to the stage five minutes before I go on, then immediately back to bed, I would love it.
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'Chandelier' took, like, four minutes to write the chords, then, like, 12-15 minutes to write the lyrics. Probably 10 or 15 minutes to cut the vocals.
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The accolades don't nourish me - being with loved ones and my dogs does.
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I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy.
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I think it would be very difficult to maintain one kind of art or whatever for your whole life. I think it's unrealistic.
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I love the idea of how fast can we make the song, but I don't think that I'm necessarily, like, a super-talented songwriter. I think I'm just really productive. One out of 10 songs is a hit.
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I have so much to thank reality TV for.
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About 50 percent of the songs on the radio are like, 'Live like tomorrow doesn't exist. Like it's my birthday. Like it's the last day of my life'... Such a large percentage of pop music is really about party time.
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I'll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don't have to be famous.
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When I was 21, I went to London and lived there for eight years.
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People call me for the ballads. Apparently that's where I've been pigeonholed. But it's really interesting and really fun. It's my favourite part of the job, writing.