Sia Furler Quotes

Knowing now what goes into making a successful artist, it's disheartening.

I'm gonna live like tomorrow doesn't exist.

I'm an advocate of 'it's not what you are, it's who you are.'

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 liked when I was naive and I thought it was just about making good music.

I've got thick skin and an elastic heart.

I may cry ruining my make up, Wash away all things you've taken.. I don't care if I don't look pretty, Big girls cry when their hearts are breaking.

People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff.

I don't want to be famous, or recognizable.

I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.

Fame made me develop a panic disorder.

It was really shocking to me that when I was dating a dude I could get married and my taxes were 8 grand less, blah blah blah.

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.

I don't really even go out that much now except to walk my dogs, because I don't want to be recognised.

I hope I am a psychotherapist's dream. I've spent enough hours in therapy.

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 was born pretty lucky, an Aryan Australian, friendly girl, that gives you a lot of advantages in the world. I was unaware of people's fights or struggles for equality. I was really naive.

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.

There are probably five songs in the world that I get excited about when I hear them on the radio.

I like bands for a long time, even when they're not trendy anymore. I still like Arcade Fire. I've always liked Stevie Wonder.

I love visual gags and gimmicks; I love them.

I'm just completely obsessed with Die Antwoord.

Being hunted, paparazzi-style , doesn't appeal to me.

I don't know anything about the history of music.

I was weirdly obsessed with music until I was 11, and then I turned into a nerd.

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.

I love watching reality TV, but being part of making it was just demoralizing.

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.

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

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

Help, I have done it again I have been here many times before Hurt myself again today And the worst part is There's no-one else to blame.

I don't need to be rich anymore; I don't need to be a millionaire.

There's time limits on how long people's attention spans will work. There's six weeks in each territory that you're really famous, then you, thank god, disappear again.

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 don't love performing, because it's nerve-racking and it's time - consuming to rehearse a whole set - and my time can often be better served writing music and just making it and putting it out.

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.