Sia Quotes
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I have so much to thank reality TV for.
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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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When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.
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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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My dad and mom were in bands: the Soda Jerks, Fat Time, Girls at Play - which is a play on Men at Work.
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A lot of people come up to me expecting to meet the person they have seen perform. It's not going to happen, unless my mania, my stage person, responds to them and not the real me.
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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'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 can clear my mind, and lyrics just come out; it's very easy for me.
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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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Life is pretty surreal and awesome.
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I don't need to sing in front of thousands, as I can sing in the shower.
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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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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 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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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 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 don't care about commercial success. I get to do what I love and communicate whatever I want.
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This is a sick business. It's so sad.
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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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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 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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I'm acting a lot when I'm writing for other people.
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The truth is that you shouldn't match your insides to other people's outsides. Life is an inside job, and we just have to do our best.