Sia

“I was a slightly overweight, spiky-fringed, rat's-tailed '80s girl who was just showing up. That's all I've ever really done to get here, just kept showing up. Even when I didn't want to. That's what I do.”

“There's this image of us on the red carpet, being really fancy, and then there's the reality.”

“As a person, I'm a good person who shows up for my friends. I do my best to be good. As an artist, I have no idea.”

“If a transporter could send me from the bed with the dogs watching crappy TV to the stage five minutes before I go on, then immediately back to bed, I would love it.”

“I'm an advocate of 'it's not what you are, it's who you are.'”

“I love the writing and performing, but everything in between sucks.”

“The melody will tell me what the song should be about, the tone of the song. That's when the intellect comes in. Because I have a list of possible titles and concepts, and I expand on that.”

“I like to sing, and I like to make records - and that part is fun.”

“When I was outed by Perez Hilton as bisexual, I suddenly started being asked personal questions, which was really difficult.”

“When you're entertaining all day long and that's your work, you end up really very tired. You don't have a lot of energy left over for your loved ones.”

“When I'm in a songwriting phase, it's a phase. I don't just suddenly feel inspired and then write a song, because I always write with a co-writer.”

“I don't want to be famous or recognizable. I don't want to be critiqued about the way that I look on the Internet... 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 think it's impossible not to see something you wanted happen to someone else and maybe wish it for yourself.”

“I do not love performing. I get really scared.”

“If Amy Winehouse was a beehive, then I guess I'm a blonde bob.”

“I'm allowed to maintain some modicum of privacy. But also, I would like not to be picked apart or for people to observe when I put on 10 pounds or take off 10 pounds, or I have a hair extension out of place, or my fake tan is botched.”

“I don't want to be critiqued about the way that I look on the Internet.”

“I love TV, and I love movies, and I pull so much content from the drama in all of those mediums and put them into songs.”

“Usually, the song will tell me who it belongs to. It seems clear to me who would do a good job with it, who it suits.”

“I'm a fan of the Strokes, so my big fantasy was that one day I would get to sing with them.”