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" I love visual gags and gimmicks; I love them. "
Sia
I Love
Them
Visual
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" There's this image of us on the red carpet, being really fancy, and then there's the reality. "
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" I thought I was going to be an actor. I liked entertaining. I was pretty much tap dancing for attention from a very early age. My family was kind of musical, and there were people in the circus next door and actors across the road. I just enjoyed messing around with music growing up, but I really thought I was going to be an actor. "
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People
Family
Music
" I believe that once I put music out, it's owned by the listener. "
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I Believe
Out
Believe
" I'm just completely obsessed with Die Antwoord. "
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Die
Just
" I think that the stuff I write for pop music is terribly, terribly cheesy. "
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Music
Think
Pop Music
" 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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Me
Real
Person
" The weirder the better for me. "
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Me
Weirder
Better
" 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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Love
Bed
Back
" I started dating JD Samson from Le Tigre, and suddenly I was listening to more up-tempo music and old dance music, like ESG and Gang of Four, and I thought, 'Wow. This is fun.' "
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Listening
Dance
Music
" I toured for 13 years, and it was very lonely, and it was hard work. "
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Lonely
Years
Work
" What I do enjoy is the creative process. "
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Creative
Process
Enjoy
" Fame is the worst thing that can happen to a person. I choose not to appear in anything publicly. Twitter's it! "
Sia
Worst
Choose
Fame
" I don't really listen to music. I don't. I watch television. "
Sia
Television
Watch
Listen
" When I'm in a songwriting phase, it's a phase. I don't just suddenly feel inspired and then write a song, because I always write with a co-writer. "
Sia
Song
Feel
Songwriting
" When I write promotionally, I guess I give away the ones I'm less connected to. "
Sia
Give
Write
Less
" 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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Fan
Fantasy
Sing
" I had hundreds of thousands of dollars of tax penalties. "
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Had
Hundreds
Penalties
" 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. "
Sia
Listen
Movies
Watching
" I love TV, and I love movies, and I pull so much content from the drama in all of those mediums and put them into songs. "
Sia
Drama
Songs
Movies
" I just wanted to have a private life. "
Sia
Private Life
Private
Life
" I like to sing, and I like to make records - and that part is fun. "
Sia
Sing
Like
Fun
" If anyone besides famous people knew what it was like to be a famous person, they would never want to be famous. "
Sia
Never
Want
Person
" I get to do what I love and communicate whatever I want. "
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Love
Whatever
Want
" My dad and mom were in bands: the Soda Jerks, Fat Time, Girls at Play - which is a play on Men at Work. "
Sia
Fat
Work
Time
" 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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Up
Romantic
Love
" I have so much to thank reality TV for. "
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TV
Thank
Reality
" I love the writing and performing, but everything in between sucks. "
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Everything
Writing
Performing
" The 'victim to victory' theory is that, if you listen to the radio, a large percentage of the hits are... about victim to victory, like, 'I'm having a terrible time.' And then the pre-chorus is, 'I don't know what's gonna happen next.' And the chorus is, 'Now I'm brilliant, and everything is great, because something happened to make it great.' "
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You
Victory
Time
" I don't need security detail; I don't need anything special. I just walk around, and I can do that, and that's a real luxury when you're in my industry. "
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You
Security
Walk
" As a person, I'm a good person who shows up for my friends. I do my best to be good. As an artist, I have no idea. "
Sia
Friends
Good
Good Person