Top 144 Quotes & Sayings by Sia - Page 2

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Last updated on September 19, 2024.

I guess I don't know if I'm comfortable with fame or touring or promo or any of that stuff, and I really discovered that I love working for people and co-writing and working under someone.

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

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

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I love TV, and I love movies, and I pull so much content from the drama in all of those mediums and put them into songs.

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The songs that work best are broad lyrically and have one strong concept in the metaphor.

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Sometimes, after I finish the lyrics and have all the melodies and harmonies and the pop and vocal, I'll be like, 'I have to keep it. I love it too much.'

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I'm acting a lot when I'm writing for other people.

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The melody will tell me what the song should be about, the tone of the song. That's when the intellect comes in. Because I have a list of possible titles and concepts, and I expand on that.

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I'm just a follower.

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I got a little bit famous. I didn't like it.

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

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I like to sing, and I like to make records - and that part is fun.

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I like the Carpenters and Elvis.

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My dad is an egomaniac.

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I'm trying to have some control over my image.

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I don't listen to the albums that I make, and I don't listen to a lot of music as a whole.

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I'd had a relationship with a woman when I was 20, but nobody cared then. As it came out at the same time as my fame, I started to have panic attacks.

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This is a sick business. It's so sad.

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I love hip hop, and I have a bunch of urban songs I write for fun that I can't put on my albums because people would laugh and point.

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I appreciate my music is famous, but I'd rather my face wasn't so that I can just live a normal life.

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

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I don't really listen to music. I don't. I watch television.

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Everybody in the entertainment industry is insecure.

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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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I have a family I love. They tend to say, 'Great job!' Or 'You work really hard! Good for you!' Or 'You look nice today!' Or 'Don't be ridiculous, order the fries!' Or 'You are hilarious.' That's all the family I need.

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

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I had hundreds of thousands of dollars of tax penalties.

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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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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.

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I think that the stuff I write for pop music is terribly, terribly cheesy.

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The hour and a half I'm on stage is my favourite part of the day when I'm on tour because the only part I really love is the interaction with the audience.

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

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As a person, I'm a good person who shows up for my friends. I do my best to be good. As an artist, I have no idea.

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You never know what I'm gonna do.

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I really don't know anything about music.

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I was really bored of making downtempo albums.

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If a transporter could send me from the bed with the dogs watching crappy TV to the stage five minutes before I go on, then immediately back to bed, I would love it.

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

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I used to be addicted to 'Reader's Digest' growing up. I would read the stories about love, and I guess that's where I became a hopeless romantic. I draw from that a lot.

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I liked Olivia Newton-John.

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I just want to be a good storyteller.

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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'm just trying to work out a way to be a singer and to create cool content. I'm willing to do that as an entertainer. But I'm not willing to give up my actual self.

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I love the idea of how fast can we make the song, but I don't think that I'm necessarily, like, a super-talented songwriter. I think I'm just really productive. One out of 10 songs is a hit.

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When I'm writing a pop song, I'll just write formulaically, strategically.

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When I was outed by Perez Hilton as bisexual, I suddenly started being asked personal questions, which was really difficult.

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I love the writing and performing, but everything in between sucks.

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I can clear my mind, and lyrics just come out; it's very easy for me.

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I don't really identify as gay; I don't really know what I am.

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I don't need to sing in front of thousands, as I can sing in the shower.

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

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I believe that once I put music out, it's owned by the listener.

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I think it's impossible not to see something you wanted happen to someone else and maybe wish it for yourself.

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'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.