Top 30 King Princess Quotes

I think it’s so funny because straight people just don’t think about gender in their songs, or making a statement by talking about love.

I think that’s the place ideally we’d like to get to as well, as queer people, where you can just judge the music for what it is and not just because it’s gay. I think it’s important that until we get to that place, statements have to be made, and we have to be loud and outward, so that’s where I’m coming from.

It’s time for gay people to be in the industry and talking about their stories.

Pop music has been the center of change, you know? And positive messages. I would love to get back to that place because I think we’ve lost it a little bit.

You need to kind of have a rubric, how you want to be, how you want to interact in this industry.

I’m a great example of somebody who is gay but exists on a very complicated gender spectrum. I’m okay with that uncertainty, and I’m okay with existing in a gray area and not always being sure.

I wrote them kind of consecutively, starting with ‘Holy,’ and then ‘1950,’ ‘Talia,’ ‘Upper West Side,’ ‘Make My Bed,’ and I was kind of like, ‘This is it.’ It felt right. It felt complete. It felt like a sentence. I really enjoyed making it.

You’re your truest self when you’re young, and when somebody says something, and you’re like, ‘Oh, maybe I’m not normal,’ you shut it down. It’s always a process to rediscover those parts of yourself.

I’ve been working in music since I was a little kid. I would do background singing in my dad’s studio all the time when I was a kid. I went to label meetings when I was pretty young, and obviously my goal was, like, ‘No, we’re gonna hold off.’

I’ll just say I’m lucky. I’ve got the dopest girl in my corner.

I spent a lot of time preparing for releasing music and then not a lot of time releasing music.

Growing up with a dad who was a classic-rock guy, I felt out of place with what was happening in pop culture. The Beatles, Zeppelin, T. Rex – that, for me, was the music that could never leave our vocabulary.

I took some meetings when I was 11. I think what was interesting about being a young kid in environments like that was people were like, ‘You’re so sure of yourself! You’re so confident!’ And I was like, ‘I’m 12.’ Now I’ve got to this place where I’m like, ‘This is who I am.’

Historically a publicly unaccepted but incredibly rich culture, queer love was only able to exist privately for a long time, expressed in society through coded art forms.

We released ‘1950,’ and I felt so grateful for the response from the queer community as well as just musicians and people in the industry responding to it and validating the art I had made. It makes me feel super hopeful.

I wrote about ladies who had come through the studio. I get asked, ‘Is it a choice to gender the music or put pronouns in?’ and for me, it just wasn’t a choice.

I think that everybody on my Instagram are lovely. These people are wonderful, like these kids… it’s just unconditional love, and it’s really sweet.

I think the name perfectly encapsulates my soul, and so I get to be myself with the safety of a different name.

King Princess is like an attitude. I take comfort in it as kind of a shield to exist in, where I can make cohesive art. And it’s androgynous, which is intentional. It’s important to me that my art exist in a kind of neutral space, genderless to some degree. And give the listener some imagery to hold on to.

It’s funny ‘cos I think a lot about kids who grow up with their parents being really important members of their fields, and they just go the opposite way.

You’re in for a live band. That’s really what I wanted; I wanted to put on a show for people where they could come for the gay and stay for the musicianship. It’s a live show; there’s some rock stuff, too. Some rock and roll. Get ready.

Having a sold-out show takes a lot of the pressure off because I know that it’s going to be a room full of people who are excited to be there. The worst part – or the part that I’m adjusting to – is the actual act of traveling. The hotels are pretty trash.

My dad was really a protector and mentor.

I’m a big Cate Blanchett fan. I’m ready. I’m coming! I mean, come on, I am a gay girl; I want what I want. I want to come to Australia and marry Cate Blanchett. Just let everybody know for me.

I think younger women need older women to get where they need to be. I think women turn out the best work in the world.

I think that there are all these amazing figures in our history – the Bowies, the Tina Turners, the Chers, the people who are, in many ways, genderless or represent ‘the other’ – and I want pop music, and other queer artists – Kehlani, Perfume Genius – these people are bringing queer narratives into people’s minds.

Gak encompasses so many things, like, ‘Tonight is going to be a gak and a half.’ If it’s going to be a ‘big gak,’ it’s going to be major.

I feel super-proud of my team and myself; like, I have an all-star MVP team. They’re so sweet, and they love me, and I love them. It’s a very respectful, lovely relationship.

When I do makeup, it’s performative. I don’t really wear makeup, but I use it as a tool to talk about gender and sexuality.

The inspiration behind ‘1950’ was… gay history and the way that our people had to hide in public and how that affected the way that we love each other now.