Top 144 Quotes & Sayings by Sia
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Australian musician Sia.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
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.
Fame made me develop a panic disorder.
I love watching reality TV, but being part of making it was just demoralizing.
If anyone besides famous people knew what it was like to be a famous person, they would never want to be famous.
'Titanium' wasn't supposed to be me singing, but they put my demo vocal back on.
We all need to stand together and be a part of creating the future we hope to see.
I don't really even go out that much now, except to walk my dogs, because I don't want to be recognised. I used to be a really friendly person, and now I just want to be invisible. I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy.
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.
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 know anything about the history of music.
I hope I am a psychotherapist's dream. I've spent enough hours in therapy.
I get to do what I love and communicate whatever I want.
I'm just completely obsessed with Die Antwoord.
There are probably five songs in the world that I get excited about when I hear them on the radio.
I was weirdly obsessed with music until I was 11, and then I turned into a nerd.
If Amy Winehouse was a beehive, then I guess I'm a blonde bob.
I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy.
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.
Probably from, like, 10 to 14 or 15, I would just listen to pop radio.
The weirder the better for me.
My dad and mom were in bands: the Soda Jerks, Fat Time, Girls at Play - which is a play on Men at Work.
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.
I don't want to be followed by paparazzi; that terrifies me.
I just wanted to have a private life.
Life is pretty surreal and awesome.
That's the thing about awards - it's for the people who do all the hard work behind the scenes. An award is just a clap at them.
I'm an advocate of 'it's not what you are, it's who you are.'
I don't want to be critiqued about the way that I look on the Internet.
I'm impressionable, that's for sure.
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.
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 thought I was going to be an actor. I liked entertaining. I was pretty much tap dancing for attention from a very early age. My family was kind of musical, and there were people in the circus next door and actors across the road. I just enjoyed messing around with music growing up, but I really thought I was going to be an actor.
Knowing now what goes into making a successful artist, it's disheartening.
What I do enjoy is the creative process.
When I'm in a songwriting phase, it's a phase. I don't just suddenly feel inspired and then write a song, because I always write with a co-writer.
I think I managed to trick people a little bit into thinking I'm more arty by making creative, artistic, visual work and applying it to commercial music. Maybe. I don't know.
I'm not selling a dream; I'm not selling fame like it is some sort of fantastic thing.
I'm a fan of the Strokes, so my big fantasy was that one day I would get to sing with them.
When I was 10, my parents really valued success in the arts, and I thought if I was a famous 'something artistic,' that they would love me more.
I love visual gags and gimmicks; I love them.
People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff.
About 50 percent of the songs on the radio are like, 'Live like tomorrow doesn't exist. Like it's my birthday. Like it's the last day of my life'... Such a large percentage of pop music is really about party time.
I'm allowed to maintain some modicum of privacy. But also, I would like not to be picked apart or for people to observe when I put on 10 pounds or take off 10 pounds, or I have a hair extension out of place, or my fake tan is botched.
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.
I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.
The truth is that you shouldn't match your insides to other people's outsides. Life is an inside job, and we just have to do our best.
It can be difficult navigating the line between tabloid gossip and authenticity.
People call me for the ballads. Apparently that's where I've been pigeonholed. But it's really interesting and really fun. It's my favourite part of the job, writing.
I don't read reviews or interviews or anything, just because I'm afraid; If I believed the good, then I'd believe the bad, and there will be bad.
I started dating JD Samson from Le Tigre, and suddenly I was listening to more up-tempo music and old dance music, like ESG and Gang of Four, and I thought, 'Wow. This is fun.'
I think it would be very difficult to maintain one kind of art or whatever for your whole life. I think it's unrealistic.
I don't need to be rich anymore; I don't need to be a millionaire.
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.
'One Million Bullets' is my baby.
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.
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 social anxiety. It's easier up on stage because there's security in being there. When I'm off stage I'm trying not to be a manic freak. I'm quite shy.
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.
The 'victim to victory' theory is that, if you listen to the radio, a large percentage of the hits are... about victim to victory, like, 'I'm having a terrible time.' And then the pre-chorus is, 'I don't know what's gonna happen next.' And the chorus is, 'Now I'm brilliant, and everything is great, because something happened to make it great.'
I'll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don't have to be famous.
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