Sia Quotes
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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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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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I have so much to thank reality TV for.
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My dad is an egomaniac.
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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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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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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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I can clear my mind, and lyrics just come out; it's very easy for me.
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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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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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Life is pretty surreal and awesome.
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I have social anxiety. It's easier up on stage because there's security in being there. When I'm off stage I'm trying not to be a manic freak. I'm quite shy.
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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 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'm acting a lot when I'm writing for other people.
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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'm fine around other people's feelings. It doesn't make me nervous or anxious.
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My goal is to give girls and boys a different idea of expression. It's not always about looking pretty or cute. It's about expressing yourself however that may be, even if that's being silly or goofy or weird.
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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 don't need to sing in front of thousands, as I can sing in the shower.
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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.
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We all need to stand together and be a part of creating the future we hope to see.