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" 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. "

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" I don't do sessions for myself ever. I'm always working, writing for pop sessions. And what happens is that sometimes I like a song so much, I keep it for myself. "

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Myself

Writing

Song

" When I write promotionally, I guess I give away the ones I'm less connected to. "

" Fame is the worst thing that can happen to a person. I choose not to appear in anything publicly. Twitter's it! "

" I refrain from blaming anything on my parents. "

" I don't want to be famous or recognizable. I don't want to be critiqued about the way that I look on the Internet... I've been writing pop songs for pop stars for a couple years and see what their lives are like, and that's just not something I want. "

" When you're entertaining all day long and that's your work, you end up really very tired. You don't have a lot of energy left over for your loved ones. "

" I don't care about commercial success. I get to do what I love and communicate whatever I want. "

" Melody is pure intuition. I don't use any thinking brain when I do that. That's totally in the zone. "

" I toured for 13 years, and it was very lonely, and it was hard work. "

" I was pretty much tap dancing for attention from a very early age. "

" 'Chandelier' took, like, four minutes to write the chords, then, like, 12-15 minutes to write the lyrics. Probably 10 or 15 minutes to cut the vocals. "

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Lyrics

Four

" 'Titanium' wasn't supposed to be me singing, but they put my demo vocal back on. "

" The accolades don't nourish me - being with loved ones and my dogs does. "

" 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. "

Sia

Real

Person

" Probably from, like, 10 to 14 or 15, I would just listen to pop radio. "

Sia

Just

Radio

" I had hundreds of thousands of dollars of tax penalties. "

" I really don't know anything about music. "

" That's why 'Chandelier' was interesting to me... I wrote the song because there's so many party-girl anthems in pop. And I thought it'd be interesting to do a different take on that. "

Sia

Thought

Interesting

" When I was 21, I went to London and lived there for eight years. "

" 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. "

" I don't need to be rich anymore; I don't need to be a millionaire. "

" 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. "

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

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Selling

Fame

" My goal is to give girls and boys a different idea of expression. It's not always about looking pretty or cute. It's about expressing yourself however that may be, even if that's being silly or goofy or weird. "

" I have big dreams. I want to keep songwriting. Direct films. Be a parent. "

" I can't be bothered to learn Final Draft. I'm not a technical person. Like, when I sing, I just want to sing the melody and write the lyrics. "

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

" My dad and mom were in bands: the Soda Jerks, Fat Time, Girls at Play - which is a play on Men at Work. "

" When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity. "