Top 144 Quotes & Sayings by Sia - Page 3

I don't want to have to do production, which is very technical. I don't enjoy that.

I was too embarrassed to tell anyone I wanted to make a movie because I thought it would be seen as a vanity project because I was a singer.

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

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

I have so much to thank reality TV for.

Just, whenever you can, get up and sing at a gig or jam. If you have a chance, take it and keep on getting up. Keep going - but not If people boo, 'cause that's just mean. I think that could be setting yourself for disappointment.

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 think that, to some degree, being irreverent is the only reason I continue to be successful.

I try not to do too much self-analysis apart from when I'm actually paying $170 an hour for it. I try to keep it in the room.

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.

All I really want to do is things I haven't done. 'I'm gonna put a paper bag on my head and be on the cover of 'Billboard,' see what I can get away with - if they'll let me.' And they let me. And I am literally giggling inside for, like, a month that I got away with it.

I refrain from blaming anything on my parents.

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.

It takes me, like, half an hour to write the lyrics for a song. They just come out.

I was a slightly overweight, spiky-fringed, rat's-tailed '80s girl who was just showing up. That's all I've ever really done to get here, just kept showing up. Even when I didn't want to. That's what I do.

I really don't know anything about music. I don't really listen to it. I don't know anything about the history of music.

A lot of the time, I don't actually relate to what I'm writing about in pop songs.

I'm never going to sing the words, 'I want to shut down the club,' never, ever.

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

There's this image of us on the red carpet, being really fancy, and then there's the reality.

That would really be my fantasy - maybe just do three shows a year and each year in a different city, just singing for the people who really want to see it, and then just write for other people. I do love to sing, but I'm just as happy singing in the bathtub, you know?

Usually, the song will tell me who it belongs to. It seems clear to me who would do a good job with it, who it suits.

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.

I'm fine around other people's feelings. It doesn't make me nervous or anxious.