I don't really even go out that much now, except to walk my dogs, because I don't want to be recognised. I used to be a really friendly person, and now I just want to be invisible. I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy.
— Sia
I think that, to some degree, being irreverent is the only reason I continue to be successful.
When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.
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?
Fame is the worst thing that can happen to a person. I choose not to appear in anything publicly. Twitter's it!
A lot of the time, I don't actually relate to what I'm writing about in pop songs.
I don't care about commercial success. I get to do what I love and communicate whatever I want.
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 have so much to thank reality TV for.
I refrain from blaming anything on my parents.
The weirder the better for me.
I don't want to have to do production, which is very technical. I don't enjoy that.
There's this image of us on the red carpet, being really fancy, and then there's the reality.
I liked Olivia Newton-John.
This is a sick business. It's so sad.
I used to be addicted to 'Reader's Digest' growing up. I would read the stories about love, and I guess that's where I became a hopeless romantic. I draw from that a lot.
I think it's impossible not to see something you wanted happen to someone else and maybe wish it for yourself.
I try not to do too much self-analysis apart from when I'm actually paying $170 an hour for it. I try to keep it in the room.
That's the thing about awards - it's for the people who do all the hard work behind the scenes. An award is just a clap at them.
I don't care what people think of me, unless they think I'm mean or something, but I don't care if they think I'm like someone else because I know I'm not - I'm a total weirdo. I'm not selling a dream; I'm not selling fame like it is some sort of fantastic thing. I'm just trying to sell music and get on with my real life.
It takes me, like, half an hour to write the lyrics for a song. They just come out.
All I really want to do is things I haven't done. 'I'm gonna put a paper bag on my head and be on the cover of 'Billboard,' see what I can get away with - if they'll let me.' And they let me. And I am literally giggling inside for, like, a month that I got away with it.
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 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 really feel like I've nailed songwriting. It's my specialty; it's what I'm good at.
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.
'Titanium' wasn't supposed to be me singing, but they put my demo vocal back on.
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.
I can't be bothered to learn Final Draft. I'm not a technical person. Like, when I sing, I just want to sing the melody and write the lyrics.
My goal is to give girls and boys a different idea of expression. It's not always about looking pretty or cute. It's about expressing yourself however that may be, even if that's being silly or goofy or weird.
My dad and mom were in bands: the Soda Jerks, Fat Time, Girls at Play - which is a play on Men at Work.
You never know what I'm gonna do.
I like the Carpenters and Elvis.
I don't really identify as gay; I don't really know what I am.
Just, whenever you can, get up and sing at a gig or jam. If you have a chance, take it and keep on getting up. Keep going - but not If people boo, 'cause that's just mean. I think that could be setting yourself for disappointment.
The truth is that you shouldn't match your insides to other people's outsides. Life is an inside job, and we just have to do our best.
I have never made money selling records. I have never really made money touring, either, or with merchandise, surprisingly. But I do make money by just having my songs in the background of television shows or in commercials or movie trailers. That's been really good.
I really don't know anything about music. I don't really listen to it. I don't know anything about the history of music.
I thought I was going to be an actor. I liked entertaining. I was pretty much tap dancing for attention from a very early age. My family was kind of musical, and there were people in the circus next door and actors across the road. I just enjoyed messing around with music growing up, but I really thought I was going to be an actor.
If Amy Winehouse was a beehive, then I guess I'm a blonde bob.
I'm fine around other people's feelings. It doesn't make me nervous or anxious.
We all need to stand together and be a part of creating the future we hope to see.
I'm never going to sing the words, 'I want to shut down the club,' never, ever.
I love to dance. I have always been the first on the dance floor, but I'm not teachable. I couldn't learn 'five, six, seven, eight' if my life depended on it.
What I do enjoy is the creative process.
I was too embarrassed to tell anyone I wanted to make a movie because I thought it would be seen as a vanity project because I was a singer.
I have big dreams. I want to keep songwriting. Direct films. Be a parent.
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.
I just want to be a good storyteller.
I do not love performing. I get really scared.
