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" I think there's something antagonistic about bedroom pop. We're reappropriating pop and saying you don't have to be an ex-Disney star to make pop music. You can be from Shepherd's Bush and have spent most of your life listening to the Smiths and still make a pop record. "

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" I want to explore my boundaries. I want to push myself and go right to the edge of what I am capable of. I don't want to ever be comfortable. "

Shura

Myself

Edge

Explore

" 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. "

" Is the mainstream becoming more queer? Or is it the opposite? That artists like me are mainstreaming queer music? "

Shura

Opposite

Music

" 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'm actually really impressed with everyone at Polydor. "

" To go from someone who would put something on SoundCloud and maybe get 15,000 plays in a year to getting 100,000 plays in one day felt very weird. I thought I was dying. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm really freaked out by time. How, for instance, what I did last week is not real in the sense that it's happened. It's just a memory that's filed away in my brain. "

" I don't care about how many records I sell, but the main thing is people like it. "

Shura

Records

People

" There's a part of me that's ambitious. "

Shura

Part

Ambitious

" 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. "

" I love scarves and hats and coats. I love it. "

" When you have a lot of gay friends, you don't think of that as being different or divisive or weird; that's just your reality. "

" The hardest thing is having to do selfies even when you're on your period and you're queuing at Superdrug to get ibuprofen. That's when I'm like, 'You know what? I don't feel like Shura today.' "

" 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

" Perhaps a young boy or girl, after watching my video, can go, 'Maybe I don't have to be embarrassed. Maybe I can come out at school, maybe I can tell my best friend... and maybe I don't have to be afraid anymore.' "

" I didn't really want anyone to know that I wanted to write music or make songs because, in a way, I didn't necessarily know if I wanted to do it for a profession. I wanted to do it to express myself. "

" 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. "

" It's just as important - if not more important - to take the praise with a pinch of salt, just as you do the criticism. "

" Producing albums is 100 per cent where I would love to be, later in my career. "

" 'Nothing's Real' is about my first-ever panic attack, which I had about four months after getting my record deal. "

" With 'White Light,' I had just finished watching 'Under the Skin' and was really obsessed with the idea of science fiction presented as normality. "

" Sometimes we feel like we're only interacting with what's already happening; we don't actually affect anything - sometimes I feel like that, anyway. "

Shura

Feel

Affect

" I was obsessed with 'The Lion King' as a kid, and I really wanted to go work in an animal sanctuary and have my Lara Croft moment. "

" 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 take inspiration from so many places. I think, more than anything, it would have to be the music made by others that I've then fallen in love with, whether it's Madonna, Blood Orange, Fleetwood Mac, or Pink Floyd! "

" When I wasn't working, I was learning how to use production software on YouTube and making music. "

" I'd love to sing with so many people, but my biggest dream would be to sing on a record with The National. "