Sia

“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 don't need security detail; I don't need anything special. I just walk around, and I can do that, and that's a real luxury when you're in my industry.”

“A lot of the time, I don't actually relate to what I'm writing about in pop songs.”

“I'm very easily influenced, and I'm also a quick study, so I think when I decided I wanted to write pop songs, I literally just listened to pop radio for six months to get a feel for it and understand it.”

“I'm really visually stimulated more than anything. I don't really listen to music. I'm more into watching telly or watching movies and visual art.”

“This is a sick business. It's so sad.”

“In my sobriety, I have discovered that the people I love, and who hurt me, were sick like me.”

“That would really be my fantasy - maybe just do three shows a year and each year in a different city, just singing for the people who really want to see it, and then just write for other people. I do love to sing, but I'm just as happy singing in the bathtub, you know?”

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

“I love visual gags and gimmicks; I love them.”

“I like the Carpenters and Elvis.”

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

“I just want to be a good storyteller.”

“I've been writing pop songs for pop stars for a couple years and see what their lives are like, and that's just not something I want.”

“I had hundreds of thousands of dollars of tax penalties.”

“I really felt like 'Chandelier' was a big pop song. But we weren't sure what would happen if I wasn't willing to show my face and do promo and go on tour and do the traditional kind of pop strategy. So I had no expectations.”

“Melody is pure intuition. I don't use any thinking brain when I do that. That's totally in the zone.”

“I don't really identify as gay; I don't really know what I am.”

“I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy.”

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