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" Like when I'm singing live I can't hear myself. I'm just listening to the rest of the band. To listen to my voice, it doesn't even feel like it's me. "
Sia
Singing
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" I had hundreds of thousands of dollars of tax penalties. "
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" I love to dance. I have always been the first on the dance floor, but I'm not teachable. I couldn't learn 'five, six, seven, eight' if my life depended on it. "
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" I'm trying to have some control over my image. "
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" I don't want to be critiqued about the way that I look on the Internet. "
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" I got a little bit famous. I didn't like it. "
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" When I'm writing a pop song, I'll just write formulaically, strategically. "
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" Probably from, like, 10 to 14 or 15, I would just listen to pop radio. "
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" I was a slightly overweight, spiky-fringed, rat's-tailed '80s girl who was just showing up. That's all I've ever really done to get here, just kept showing up. Even when I didn't want to. That's what I do. "
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" 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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" If Amy Winehouse was a beehive, then I guess I'm a blonde bob. "
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" I get to sit at home with the dogs on the sofa, record in a closet in the office, send them off and, if I'm lucky, make a million dollars. "
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Home
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" I have never made money selling records. I have never really made money touring, either, or with merchandise, surprisingly. But I do make money by just having my songs in the background of television shows or in commercials or movie trailers. That's been really good. "
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Never
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" 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. "
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