Sia

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

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I really feel like I've nailed songwriting. It's my specialty; it's what I'm good at.

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I'm a fan of the Strokes, so my big fantasy was that one day I would get to sing with them.

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Life is pretty surreal and awesome.

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It can be difficult navigating the line between tabloid gossip and authenticity.

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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.

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I'm really visually stimulated more than anything. I don't really listen to music. I'm more into watching telly or watching movies and visual art.

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I really felt like 'Chandelier' was a big pop song. But we weren't sure what would happen if I wasn't willing to show my face and do promo and go on tour and do the traditional kind of pop strategy. So I had no expectations.

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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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I'm sort of a gay man trapped in a woman's body when it comes to music sometimes - it's crowded in here!

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I don't go to shows because I just want to listen to the music performed live. I want to get to know the person who's performing it. Or I want to, like, take away a sense that I had an experience that nobody else is going to have again, or a unique experience for that moment.

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I think it would be very difficult to maintain one kind of art or whatever for your whole life. I think it's unrealistic.

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I think that it would be unwise of us not to believe that there is life outside of us, intelligent life. And so I do believe in aliens.

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The weirder the better for me.

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I don't care what people think of me, unless they think I'm mean or something, but I don't care if they think I'm like someone else because I know I'm not - I'm a total weirdo. I'm not selling a dream; I'm not selling fame like it is some sort of fantastic thing. I'm just trying to sell music and get on with my real life.

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