Top 35 Troye Sivan Quotes

I’m so ludicrously lucky, it would be disgusting if I didn’t acknowledge it.

I feel like part of getting better at writing is knowing where to find that inspiration. Right after something happens to me, the first thing I’ll do is go write when those feelings are really, really fresh.

I’m most proud of my work in the LGBTQ space. Feels like, above all else, that’s something I want to do for the rest of my life.

Ever since I was a little kid, I got bored, so I learned to sing, and I started singing lessons. And then anytime I was bored, I would start writing and start messing around on my computer, making beats. Then I got bored and started making YouTube videos; that changed my life in a big way.

All my friends were doing just dumb stuff that kids do, like making out with people at parties and starting to date… I didn’t know any gay people growing up or any queer people growing up, and so I just really felt alone and kind of lost, and I just wasn’t experiencing life.

Whatever success I have found has been a collaborative effort of people helping out and opening their minds and being accepting and celebrating who I am.

People think I must have pushy parents, but that’s not the case.

Someone actually asked me once if I used coming out as a publicity stunt. It’s cool that we live in a time when being gay could be seen as helping your career.

I have a majority girl audience on YouTube.

I think pop music is in such an exciting place right now, and I do kind of credit that to Lorde with ‘Royals.’ I think that song changed everything in the pop scene. All of the sudden, alternative pop music became pop music.

Before I came out, the thought of someone calling me gay, even when I knew very well that I was, was petrifying.

When I was younger, out in public, I never wanted to pop my hip and definitely made sure that my wrist was nice and firm. All these silly, prohibitive things.

In front of a big group of people, in front of cameras, to be in my body and be in that moment, I feel the way that I’ve always wanted to feel – like a real pop star who is not holding anything back.

I always felt different in a lot of ways and didn’t really know how to express that.

I share every aspect of my life with the Internet. Whether or not that’s a good thing, I don’t know.

I love retouching images on Photoshop.

It’s really empowering when, as an artist, you can visualize something and then have the final product turn out the way you wanted it to.

I’m on the path to being someone I’m equally terrified by and obsessed with. My true self.

I want to have kids and a hot husband.

Right after something happens to me, the first thing I’ll do is go write when those feelings are really, really fresh. I’ll hum a tune into my phone sometimes.

I wanted to write a song about war and that classic ‘We want you’ recruitment style from the point of view of the recruiter.

I spent so long and so much of my childhood holding myself back for fear of what people would think. I’m trying my best every day to throw that away.

I know who I am, and I know what my ambitions are. If one kid sees me on TV or sees me in a movie and relates, then I’m done. That’s perfectly fine. That’s enough for me.

I’ve definitely always had a passion for entertaining.

To me, writing is a personal thing; I write super-personal, autobiographically.

A lot of being a good voice is knowing when I have a place to speak and when it’s appropriate. And to speak from the heart when I do.

When I was born, I always knew something was a little bit different about me.

Before coming out, I remember distinctly feeling like there was a delay on my life.

I think that the beauty of ‘Spud’ is that everyone can connect to the character of Spud in so many ways. It’s about real experiences that happen to kids all the time.

I watched pretty much every coming out video on YouTube that has ever been posted; I watched it in between 14 and a half and 15. Those coming out videos, and those people on YouTube, those brave, brave, brave people on YouTube, without them, I don’t know where I’d be.

I super strongly identify with marginalized communities. I’m not at all religious, but I feel super, super Jewish. I can’t even describe the feeling, but it actually feels really similar to being gay, the kind of kinship that you feel with the LGBTQ people. That same sense of community is there with Judaism.

I feel like I have just been really, really lucky to meet some of the most successful and great actors alive today.

I feel like I’m the most creative when I’m bored.

The most radical thing that I can do is share how happy I am.

I’m lucky enough to exist in 2018, where I have a record label that’s like, ‘Write whatever you want to write.’ I don’t have to hide anything.