Christine and the Queens

“Christine, as a stage character, is just a way for me to be more daring, to be more out of the box, to be stronger and to use everything that could weigh me down like a fuel, like an energy.”

“Christine and the Queens is about not being safe.”

“I have an obsession with haters: the great mess of the Internet expressing itself. I love to type my name on Twitter and read everything. It's always enlightening to see what they hate about you: I'm not pretty enough to be on stage, or my music doesn't make any sense. It feels good to read that, like I'm heading in the right direction!”

“I think, from the beginning, I was healed and inspired by queer culture, and Christine and the Queens, as an idea from the beginning, is queer because it questions the norm.”

“I'm not trying to brag, but if I did expose my life, it would be a good YouTube series.”

“I love funny women.”

“I have Googled so many things related to possible diseases, and it's always ridiculous. Like, 'My toe is hurting. Do I have cancer?' 'I have a scratch in my eye. Am I going to die soon?' 'Is eating a soup going to make me die?'”

“When I have to take phone calls, I start to sweat and panic. Being on the phone is so weird - hearing a voice without seeing the face so you can't really know the intention behind the voice.”

“That's part of what made me interested in theater as a kid. It made it acceptable to be a man for an hour onstage.”

“In theater, what I loved were wordless plays and working in silence.”

“I'm often lost in my dreams.”

“I wish I could change bodies and destinies.”

“I'm kind of resistant to being told no, not being wanted. It fills me with energy.”

“I love people that are question marks. I love people that don't have answers and are just trying to cope with it. I love people that just don't tick boxes. There is a grace in them I can't really find elsewhere.”

“Queer is about intense questioning that can't be made nice and glossy.”

“The way I dress definitely helps me embody and actually change my way of behaving and feel more confident.”

“Every time I think about a girl to motivate me, I think about Grimes. She's one of my heroes.”

“When the image that I built around the first album was crumbling, it was scary: the risk pays off, but the resonances of that risk are not always easy to deal with.”

“I think 'Chris' is way more about that, about living desire as a force of chaos and about reveling in that chaos.”

“I've experienced being properly lost in my desires, and it's really influenced my writing.”