Top 72 Quotes & Sayings by Troye Sivan

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Australian actor Troye Sivan.
Last updated on September 18, 2024.
Troye Sivan

Troye Sivan Mellet is an Australian singer-songwriter, actor and YouTuber. After gaining popularity as a singer on YouTube and in Australian talent competitions, Sivan signed with EMI Australia in 2013 and released his third extended play, TRXYE (2014), which peaked at number five on the US Billboard 200. Its lead single, "Happy Little Pill", reached number ten on Australian music charts. In 2015, he released his fourth extended play Wild followed by his debut studio album Blue Neighbourhood, whose lead single "Youth" became Sivan's first single to enter the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at number 23. His second studio album Bloom (2018) reached number three in Australia, and number four on the Billboard 200 chart. Its lead single, "My My My!", became Sivan's second number-one single on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart. "Take Yourself Home" was the first single from his EP In a Dream (2020).

Before coming out, I remember distinctly feeling like there was a delay on my life.
Whatever success I have found has been a collaborative effort of people helping out and opening their minds and being accepting and celebrating who I am.
I feel like part of getting better at writing is knowing where to find that inspiration. Right after something happens to me, the first thing I'll do is go write when those feelings are really, really fresh.
I share every aspect of my life with the Internet. Whether or not that's a good thing, I don't know. — © Troye Sivan
I share every aspect of my life with the Internet. Whether or not that's a good thing, I don't know.
All my friends were doing just dumb stuff that kids do, like making out with people at parties and starting to date... I didn't know any gay people growing up or any queer people growing up, and so I just really felt alone and kind of lost, and I just wasn't experiencing life.
Someone actually asked me once if I used coming out as a publicity stunt. It's cool that we live in a time when being gay could be seen as helping your career.
Before I came out, the thought of someone calling me gay, even when I knew very well that I was, was petrifying.
I don't know what I would have done had I not found the Internet. I found a community of people who I really liked and who I felt got me.
I feel like I have just been really, really lucky to meet some of the most successful and great actors alive today.
I always felt different in a lot of ways and didn't really know how to express that.
I think pop music is in such an exciting place right now, and I do kind of credit that to Lorde with 'Royals.' I think that song changed everything in the pop scene. All of the sudden, alternative pop music became pop music.
A lot of being a good voice is knowing when I have a place to speak and when it's appropriate. And to speak from the heart when I do.
I'm lucky enough to exist in 2018, where I have a record label that's like, 'Write whatever you want to write.' I don't have to hide anything.
It's really empowering when, as an artist, you can visualize something and then have the final product turn out the way you wanted it to. — © Troye Sivan
It's really empowering when, as an artist, you can visualize something and then have the final product turn out the way you wanted it to.
The most radical thing that I can do is share how happy I am.
I've definitely always had a passion for entertaining.
I think that the beauty of 'Spud' is that everyone can connect to the character of Spud in so many ways. It's about real experiences that happen to kids all the time.
In front of a big group of people, in front of cameras, to be in my body and be in that moment, I feel the way that I've always wanted to feel - like a real pop star who is not holding anything back.
Ever since I was a little kid, I got bored, so I learned to sing, and I started singing lessons. And then anytime I was bored, I would start writing and start messing around on my computer, making beats. Then I got bored and started making YouTube videos; that changed my life in a big way.
I'm so ludicrously lucky, it would be disgusting if I didn't acknowledge it.
Right after something happens to me, the first thing I'll do is go write when those feelings are really, really fresh. I'll hum a tune into my phone sometimes.
I spent so long and so much of my childhood holding myself back for fear of what people would think. I'm trying my best every day to throw that away.
The things that excite me are staying home and cooking.
I know who I am, and I know what my ambitions are. If one kid sees me on TV or sees me in a movie and relates, then I'm done. That's perfectly fine. That's enough for me.
I have a majority girl audience on YouTube.
I wanted to write a song about war and that classic 'We want you' recruitment style from the point of view of the recruiter.
When I was younger, out in public, I never wanted to pop my hip and definitely made sure that my wrist was nice and firm. All these silly, prohibitive things.
To me, writing is a personal thing; I write super-personal, autobiographically.
I watched pretty much every coming out video on YouTube that has ever been posted; I watched it in between 14 and a half and 15. Those coming out videos, and those people on YouTube, those brave, brave, brave people on YouTube, without them, I don't know where I'd be.
I want to have kids and a hot husband.
When I was born, I always knew something was a little bit different about me.
I love retouching images on Photoshop.
People think I must have pushy parents, but that's not the case.
I super strongly identify with marginalized communities. I'm not at all religious, but I feel super, super Jewish. I can't even describe the feeling, but it actually feels really similar to being gay, the kind of kinship that you feel with the LGBTQ people. That same sense of community is there with Judaism.
I write really visually. In my head, I'm constantly picturing things as I'm writing, so for me, videos are such an expressive part of my job.
I'm on the path to being someone I'm equally terrified by and obsessed with. My true self.
I'm most proud of my work in the LGBTQ space. Feels like, above all else, that's something I want to do for the rest of my life.
I feel like I'm the most creative when I'm bored.
I genuinely love you all and the fact that some of you are not feeling so great at the moment really really upsets me. — © Troye Sivan
I genuinely love you all and the fact that some of you are not feeling so great at the moment really really upsets me.
I think I have to be aware of how much power words can have. And it makes me consider everything that I say before I say it, because you can really help a lot of people, or you can really, really mess things up.
I love you as much as I love Nutella.
I think that there is a lot of power in a gay guy having a really (hopefully) successful music career while just being completely openly gay and honest and happy.
I love, love, love songwriting. It's like the most therapeutic thing in the world.
I talk about things in music that I would never talk about with my best friends, which I think seems like a weird thing, but my justification in my head as to why it's okay is because it's cryptic enough and there's enough meat around it to make it all okay and no one can really prove what any of the songs mean.
You're all beautiful. And you shouldn't let anyone tell you otherwise.
I didn't realize how much me hiding my sexuality also meant that I hid a lot of just my identity as a person.
If I want to be remembered as anything in this life it's just 'nice'.I feel like being nice to others is the coolest thing anyone can be.
The only way I knew I was ready to come out was I was being driven crazy by the fact that I was not out.
Let yourself be the person you've secretly always wanted to be — © Troye Sivan
Let yourself be the person you've secretly always wanted to be
I call it viewing from afar, they call it stalking.
No one notices I'm breaking inside.
The thing that I really want to try and do is just live my life really openly and honestly. I think there's so much power in that, as simple as it is.
What kind of sick person would answer rainbows?
There are people in the world who 1,000% will love you just the way you are. So no matter what, keep that in mind.
I'm angry because homophobia is still a thing.
I was definitely scared of fashion growing up just because I didn't want people to think I was gay. But now that I'm out, I feel like it's such a personal journey for me that I'm going on every single day where I feel more and more confident and comfortable to wear the clothes that I want to wear, and to have the interest that I have, and to paint my nails if I want to.
I'm the type of person who listens to like sad music when I'm sad to feel sadder, and to feel sorry for myself.
I realize that I'm kind of a different person than I thought I was.
Sharing is caring, but I don't care.
I want to be able to like just chill and make whatever I want to make.
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