A biography for Christine and the Queenshasn’t been written yet.
“I love sensual women like Beyonce who are very empowering and sexy at the same time, but if it's not what you want to do then you have to say no.”
“When you dance, you own everything you have. You are really in your own body. You do it with your muscles and your bones and your weight and your height - it's how to love yourself by moving.”
“I always knew I wanted to be a woman in men's clothing because I just feel good like that. I feel like I'm taking a different space: I move differently; I'm more at ease.”
“Sometimes when I travel, I like to find things that relate to where I am.”
“I'm just drawn to hands.”
“For me, everything is a performance.”
“Grimes is the extreme version of doing everything yourself. I think this is impressive, because she is fiddling with things I couldn't fiddle with, all the technical stuff. I know what I want to do, but I wouldn't do it all my own, I would go crazy. This is insanely hard, to do an album by yourself. But I admire her for that.”
“When I was young, I took classical ballet lessons, but I wasn't very good at it. It was really frustrating because I wanted to be good at it. When I stopped having lessons, I began to dance and improvise, and I felt more comfortable.”
“I invented Christine as a survival technique. I was inspired by the idea that everyone could have a Christine inside to wake.”
“When I read a book, it's Lou Reed's voice narrating it.”
“Before I created Christine, I was actually really girly. Maybe I was trying to hide something, but I was trying too hard to be a girl, and I didn't know what it meant. I was afraid of being myself.”
“Sometimes, in my adult life, I have memories of when I was young and really scared of being too close to people.”
“It's the strong will of an artist that really inspires me.”
“I've always been obsessed with being on stage and putting shows together.”
“I wanted 'Comme si' to immediately indicate that something changed in my life, mainly because I became the hero of my own desires instead of just dreaming about them.”
“Festivals are happy places, and you don't really want to enjoy them on your own.”
“The first album was a coming-of-age album - I don't like the phrase, but when you listen to it, you can tell I was having a hard time, that I wasn't socially relating to people.”
“The success of the first album was almost an anomaly, and it could remain a fantastic anomaly. It was not crafted for commercial success. I remember meetings with my label saying it had no radio singles. For me, the second album was a gesture of independence.”
“On stage, I feel like I'm invincible, like nothing bad can happen. I can be myself. I feel like I shrink when I'm off stage.”
“Because I'm experimenting so much with gender-bending and listening to everything that happens to me in terms of genderless energies, I have a hard time finding partners that can match me.”