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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Shura

Dying

Day

Weird

" I don't hate my voice. I'm just not an Adele. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm 23, and if I wanted to release a record when I was 17, I could have released a record, but I'm really glad I didn't. "

" After putting out songs with 26 million views on YouTube, your life changes a little bit. Suddenly everyone's like, 'Where's the album?' "

" 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. "

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

Shura

Opposite

Music

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

Shura

Records

People

" I've had relationships before where you break up, and you think you're going to die, and then you realise you're definitely not going to die, and actually, you're probably better off without them. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I worked in a post-production facility for television, but in the machine room, so I was one of the nerds, essentially - making sure everyone had their footage in and all of that stuff. "

" 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. "

" 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 couldn't be a Taylor Swift. I would really suck at being Taylor Swift. "

" The best thing you can do is having to say no to putting out something that's good, because everything else is better. "

" If I fancy someone but can't tell them because I'm shy, I'll think, 'It's fine. You're not going to die. Maybe just tell them or whatever.' "

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