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" I think I managed to trick people a little bit into thinking I'm more arty by making creative, artistic, visual work and applying it to commercial music. Maybe. I don't know. "

Sia

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People

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Romantic

Love

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Thought

Interesting

" So where a lot of people will spend three weeks on one song, I will write 10 in three weeks. Maybe the song that they sculpt is going to be as successful as just one of the 10 that I wrote. "

" In my sobriety, I have discovered that the people I love, and who hurt me, were sick like me. "

" I think that the stuff I write for pop music is terribly, terribly cheesy. "

" I'm acting a lot when I'm writing for other people. "

" I like to sing, and I like to make records - and that part is fun. "

Sia

Sing

Fun

" I don't need to sing in front of thousands, as I can sing in the shower. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think that it would be unwise of us not to believe that there is life outside of us, intelligent life. And so I do believe in aliens. "

Sia

Life

Believe

" I'm not selling a dream; I'm not selling fame like it is some sort of fantastic thing. "

Sia

Selling

Fame

" I'm sort of a gay man trapped in a woman's body when it comes to music sometimes - it's crowded in here! "

" I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted. "

" 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. "

" I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy. "

" Fame made me develop a panic disorder. "

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Fame

Panic

" 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. "

" Life is pretty surreal and awesome. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm very easily influenced, and I'm also a quick study, so I think when I decided I wanted to write pop songs, I literally just listened to pop radio for six months to get a feel for it and understand it. "

" I appreciate my music is famous, but I'd rather my face wasn't so that I can just live a normal life. "

" 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. "

" 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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Real

Person

" We all need to stand together and be a part of creating the future we hope to see. "

" I'm a fan of the Strokes, so my big fantasy was that one day I would get to sing with them. "