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" 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.' "

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" 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. "

Shura

Time

People

Music

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

" A lot of people start by learning other people's songs, but the idea of singing someone else's music didn't excite me. I just wanted to write my own. It was really bad to begin with. It's improved slightly since. "

Shura

People

Learning

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

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

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

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

" 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.' "

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

" I've tried writing darker, more serious songs, but they don't go anywhere. Everything revolves around the chorus for me. "

Shura

Writing

Serious

" It's really weird when you realize the people you look up to - who have influenced or inspired you - start to realize what you do. "

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

" I didn't fit in on my football team; I was always the odd one out. "

" 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

" I love PJ Harvey, Patti Smith, Pixies, Portishead, and Massive Attack: a lot of what I would describe as alternative and indie music. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 got this advice that if you know a panic attack is happening, just sit back and go, 'Okay, this is happening to me, but it'll be over. You'll be fine. You'll live.' "

Shura

Advice

Live

" You have to challenge yourself about the choices you make as an artist. "

" Pop should be weird, and I realize as I say this that I'm not the weirdest person in the world. But if that means a girl sounding like Kylie Minogue and looking like Kurt Cobain, then so be it. "

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

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

" 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'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. "

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