Christine and the Queens

“I've always been the one who is more enthusiastic about Christmas than my family. I regress to a child state, chanting carols.”

“I remember studying so hard for so long and saying to my parents, 'I will be a teacher.' And they were looking at me like, 'Girl... you just want to be on stage. Stop pretending.' So when I chose to do music, they were relieved. My parents were more intelligent and lucid than I was.”

“For me, the male gaze is oppressive. And I hope if we are building a female gaze that it's inclusive, and it's about pure desire and not how I want people to look in order for them to be desired by me.”

“No one can escape politics. We are all in it. Even if we shy away from it, I just decide to embrace it. And I try to be an ally for other fights.”

“Music is contagious and everywhere and democratic, and that's what drew me in. I was interested in acting and being a director, but one of the things that bored me about theatre was that it was not accessible to everyone.”

“When you write, you don't really think of how honest you are being - it's only when you record that you understand how much of yourself you're giving.”

“I'm in love with artists that are really difficult to cover or to copy. You can only try to copy them, but you will never succeed because it's intertwined with really personal references and really personal ways to exist on stage. They are really strong individuals, and are writing their own songs and know where they want to go.”

“When I was young, I would write all the time. Novels, plays, and poems. It's like a disease - my life is filled with fantasies, and I have to write them all down.”

“If I want to say I'm a man for three minutes, then be it: I'm a man for three minutes.”

“I love the idea of constantly altering yourself.”

“I know that a song is working when I can properly dance on it.”

“The core of all the music I love is a good bass line and a good rhythm.”

“I don't remember my 20s as a good place.”

“I broke up with my first girlfriend because I was out of love. I was crushing so hard on her for a whole year, and I finally I got to be with her, and the interest vanished. I'm a terrible person. I was 17, and she was in my class.”

“I'm terrified of dying because of everything being too unfinished. I would be happy being a ghost.”

“When I started to write music, I desperately wanted to relate to people. But when I became famous, I could relate less. I thought, 'Oh, am I trapped in my own creation?' I was really lonely.”

“I'm kind of an obsessive person, and touring is repetitive in the best way.”

“When I thought of Christine at first, I was really angry with everything that was given to me as a young girl.”

“I'm not a pop star. I don't feel like one. I'm always joking that I'm actually an eight-year-old boy dreaming about being a pop star.”

“I've always really been interested in observing people's postures, the way they speak with their hands, the way they communicate things with their body language.”