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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. "
Sia
Trying
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" I'm just completely obsessed with Die Antwoord. "
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" I'm impressionable, that's for sure. "
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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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" 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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Bed
Back
" I love hip hop, and I have a bunch of urban songs I write for fun that I can't put on my albums because people would laugh and point. "
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" I love to dance. I have always been the first on the dance floor, but I'm not teachable. I couldn't learn 'five, six, seven, eight' if my life depended on it. "
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" I'm a fan of the Strokes, so my big fantasy was that one day I would get to sing with them. "
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Fantasy
Sing
" 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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Face
Live
" I'm not selling a dream; I'm not selling fame like it is some sort of fantastic thing. "
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Fame
" 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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Love
" I'm acting a lot when I'm writing for other people. "
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People
Writing
" It can be difficult navigating the line between tabloid gossip and authenticity. "
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Difficult
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Person
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Little Bit
Little
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Front
Need
Sing
" 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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Listen
Movies
Watching
" I'm just trying to work out a way to be a singer and to create cool content. I'm willing to do that as an entertainer. But I'm not willing to give up my actual self. "
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Work
Trying
Create
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Really
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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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Off
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Home
" 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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