Sia Quotes
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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 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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It takes me, like, half an hour to write the lyrics for a song. They just come out.
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My dad is an egomaniac.
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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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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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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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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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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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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'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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I'm not selling a dream; I'm not selling fame like it is some sort of fantastic thing.
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I'm acting a lot when I'm writing for other people.
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I don't care what people think of me, unless they think I'm mean or something, but I don't care if they think I'm like someone else because I know I'm not - I'm a total weirdo. I'm not selling a dream; I'm not selling fame like it is some sort of fantastic thing. I'm just trying to sell music and get on with my real life.
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I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.
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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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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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This is a sick business. It's so sad.
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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'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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Usually, the song will tell me who it belongs to. It seems clear to me who would do a good job with it, who it suits.
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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.