Sia Quotes
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I get to sit at home with the dogs on the sofa, record in a closet in the office, send them off and, if I'm lucky, make a million dollars.
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I don't do sessions for myself ever. I'm always working, writing for pop sessions. And what happens is that sometimes I like a song so much, I keep it for myself.
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It takes me, like, half an hour to write the lyrics for a song. They just come out.
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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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My dad is an egomaniac.
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I have so much to thank reality TV for.
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I don't go to shows because I just want to listen to the music performed live. I want to get to know the person who's performing it. Or I want to, like, take away a sense that I had an experience that nobody else is going to have again, or a unique experience for that moment.
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Like when I'm singing live I can't hear myself. I'm just listening to the rest of the band. To listen to my voice, it doesn't even feel like it's me.
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I really don't know anything about music. I don't really listen to it. I don't know anything about the history of music.
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Life is pretty surreal and awesome.
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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.
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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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It can be difficult navigating the line between tabloid gossip and authenticity.
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Sometimes, after I finish the lyrics and have all the melodies and harmonies and the pop and vocal, I'll be like, 'I have to keep it. I love it too much.'
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I was a slightly overweight, spiky-fringed, rat's-tailed '80s girl who was just showing up. That's all I've ever really done to get here, just kept showing up. Even when I didn't want to. That's what I do.
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I've been writing pop songs for pop stars for a couple years and see what their lives are like, and that's just not something I want.
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I'm acting a lot when I'm writing for other people.
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I'm really visually stimulated more than anything. I don't really listen to music. I'm more into watching telly or watching movies and visual art.
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Just, whenever you can, get up and sing at a gig or jam. If you have a chance, take it and keep on getting up. Keep going - but not If people boo, 'cause that's just mean. I think that could be setting yourself for disappointment.
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We all need to stand together and be a part of creating the future we hope to see.
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I'm not selling a dream; I'm not selling fame like it is some sort of fantastic thing.
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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'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.
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This is a sick business. It's so sad.