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" I started playing when I was about 13, mainly because Dad had guitars lying around the house. My dad taught me my first three chords, and I taught myself from there. "

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" I'm not one of those artists that can go away for six months and tour America and have 20 producers back in London or L.A. doing everything for me and I just come home and sing on it. It would be really useful, in terms of speed, to work like that. I just wouldn't find it creatively satisfying. I have to have my hand on the remote control. "

Shura

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" For me, one song is not enough to be in a person's world. I need to be in their world for 40 minutes; I want to fully experience it and immerse myself. "

Shura

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" On one level, I am a massive joker and can't take anything seriously, but on the other hand, I'm incredibly serious and a deep thinker, so I have that dichotomy within me. "

" The first time I shared music was on Myspace. Then SoundCloud came along. The difference with SoundCloud is that people can comment on stuff, which was more frightening but also way more fun - especially if they liked it. "

" I'm massively inspired by 'True Blue'-era Madonna, but she is absolutely confident and in control of the situation. "

" It's probably the first type of music we had, rhythm, whether it's poetry or tapping. "

" As I grew in confidence, I was able to come out and say that I'm a musician. "

" There are two ways of dealing with being odd. One is to really try and conform, and the other is to do the opposite and really make a thing out of it. At school, it wasn't that I was bullied, but everyone was very aware that I was different. I was kind of the token weird person that people accepted into their group, almost like an accessory. "

" People like Prince or Madonna, they're kind of superhuman. You can't imagine them burning their toast, and there's something really exciting about that. "

" Some of the best songs are love songs. They're things that we all go through, and when we're going through it, we think that we're the only person in the world going through that. Having that music there sort of reminds you that you're not alone. It happens to me, too, as a music fan. "

" I know I don't suck at being me. I'm really good at being me. "

" Whilst the Internet is amazing, someone with a laptop can make something amazing and send it out, but you grow up creatively in a very public way. "

" I'm massively inspired by Janet Jackson, and I adore Whitney Houston and Madonna. "

" From collaborating with other people, you make concessions, and those concessions are great because sometimes you are definitely wrong. "

" 'What's It Gonna Be?' is about having a massive crush on someone, so it made sense to go back where - to school, where it all began. But it was important for us to explore those archetypal characters - The Jock, The Nerd, The Dork, The Popular Kid - and then flip expectations. "

" I found my own voice slowly. I don't do big tricks like Mariah Carey, so I've found this weird way of singing that works for me. "

Shura

My Own

Voice

" I'd written songs since I was 16, but I never thought that I would be a musician full time. "

" I read interviews saying women can bring a femininity to a song, a delicacy, but some women make really aggressive music. "

" If you told teenage me that I would end up supporting Tegan and Sara for a month in North America, my head would have probably exploded. "

" I love camping, everything about it - tents, the camping stove, sleeping bags. I'm obsessed with technology, be it synthesizers and speakers or tents and Gore-Tex. "

" Being part of a crowd and not standing out is way more frightening than being the person that stands out. "

" In London, I used to play 'Boys of Summer,' but it didn't feel right, because it doesn't apply to your surroundings, to the weather. I remember being in L.A. and listening to that record and going, 'Oh, I get it now.' "

" My dad used to do a lot of music when he was young, so he had an 8-track MiniDisc recorder, and when he realized that I was getting on with it, he brought it upstairs to my room and showed me how to record and how, once you finished eight tracks, you can cut it down to two and have another six tracks to play with. "

" I'm a lesbian. That's how I identify myself, but I think there's a massive spectrum for everyone. "

" I felt that pop music didn't represent me. And that's why I made my own. "

" I made the decision that I could either go outside in the freezing cold in the wind and rain and get muddy or just stay inside and be a rock star. "

" Do stuff that is true to your own experiences. "

" It was never like I had to go, 'I am gay.' Slowly, almost by osmosis, by the way I was behaving, it became obvious and accepted. "

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Way

Never

" Someone will say, 'Shura's album is about being a gay woman in London.' Umm, I feel like my album's just about me. I am a gay woman, and I live in London... It's not about being a gay woman in London. "

Shura

I Am

Live

" There's something about rhythm and bass sections generally, how the bass and drums interact, that's basically the soul of any song. "