A biography for Jessica Origliassohasn’t been written yet.
“I always felt empowered by and proud of the people that I love, the people that I'm attracted to.”
“We get home to Brisbane every couple of months or weeks. But we have often flown home for just two days as we get so homesick.”
“Having to deal with people all of a sudden knowing who we were and knowing our music and all the rest of it was definitely something that we had to get used to.”
“Lisa tried to eat me in the womb, that's the real tea.”
“Not many people know this but we come from a long line of chicken, pineapple and onion farmers at Ingham in Queensland.”
“Electro '80s is very popular in Australia. Like, you get a headache if you walk into a mall with the number of girls and boys that are wearing big hair, leggings, headbands. You feel like you're back in the '80s.”
“I've wrongly been called sick by newspapers and magazines throughout my entire career.”
“We might depend on each other a bit too much and use that as a crutch, but it's not entirely a bad thing.”
“The thing that is most conducive of that better life for all is love, acceptance, understanding and being yourself.”
“We love pop and the U.K. specifically seems to embrace pop and it's so cool.”
“My personal favorite person we worked with in the U.K. is Cathy Dennis, who is absolutely incredible. She wrote 'Can't Get You Out of My Head' for Kylie Minogue and 'Toxic' for Britney Spears, so she's one of my absolute favorite pop writers.”
“At the end of the day, we're all human beings, and people have their struggles and inner demons.”
“Lis and I didn't talk for a year. I was in a relationship that wasn't good for me. I became isolated. I had nobody anymore, I only had my relationship.”
“Lolita' was written at a time when we were heavily listening to more dance, electronic, and trance, and then on the flip side we were writing country-pop songs like 'Born Bob Dylan' or our acoustic songs, or trip-hop.”
“We are comfortable in our bodies, we know how healthy we are.”
“In Australia, our first album went four-times platinum. It was massive.”
“I'm a bit of a cougar, to be honest.”
“I think Spotify really does help. If you're going with the evolution of music these days, it's only becoming more and more popular and I don't think it's something to be shunned.”
“The '90s is my favourite era of music, especially the girl-bands like Babes in Toyland.”
“We don't have to test our boundaries anymore. We definitely know what they are.”