Sia Furler's Quotes

I have social anxiety. It's easier up on stage because there's security in being there. When I'm off stage I'm trying not to be a manic freak. I'm quite shy.

People call me for the ballads. Apparently that's where I've been pigeonholed. But it's really interesting and really fun. It's my favourite part of the job, writing.

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.

I'm just completely obsessed with Die Antwoord.

I don't really even go out that much now except to walk my dogs, because I don't want to be recognised.

I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.

Fame made me develop a panic disorder.

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

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

I don't read reviews or interviews or anything, just because I'm afraid; If I believed the good, then I'd believe the bad, and there will be bad.

I hope I am a psychotherapist's dream. I've spent enough hours in therapy.

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

I love visual gags and gimmicks; I love them.

I love watching reality TV, but being part of making it was just demoralizing.

I think it would be very difficult to maintain one kind of art or whatever for your whole life. I think it's unrealistic.

I was weirdly obsessed with music until I was 11, and then I turned into a nerd.

I'll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don't have to be famous.

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

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

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.

I'm sort of a gay man trapped in a woman's body when it comes to music sometimes - it's crowded in here!

Knowing now what goes into making a successful artist, it's disheartening.

Like when I'm singing live I can't hear myself. I'm just listening to the rest of the band. To listen to my voice, it doesn't even feel like it's me.

People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff.

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

When I was 10, my parents really valued success in the arts, and I thought if I was a famous 'something artistic,' that they would love me more.