Top 66 Sia Quotes

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.

I’m just a follower.

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

‘Chandelier’ took, like, four minutes to write the chords, then, like, 12-15 minutes to write the lyrics. Probably 10 or 15 minutes to cut the vocals.

Probably from, like, 10 to 14 or 15, I would just listen to pop radio.

A lot of the time, I don’t actually relate to what I’m writing about in pop songs.

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 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.

I just wanted to have a private life.

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.

Married life is awesome.

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.

When I write promotionally, I guess I give away the ones I’m less connected to.

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.

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

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.

What I do enjoy is the creative process.

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 think that the stuff I write for pop music is terribly, terribly cheesy.

I just want to be a good storyteller.

I refrain from blaming anything on my parents.

The hour and a half I’m on stage is my favourite part of the day when I’m on tour because the only part I really love is the interaction with the audience.

So where a lot of people will spend three weeks on one song, I will write 10 in three weeks. Maybe the song that they sculpt is going to be as successful as just one of the 10 that I wrote.

I think I managed to trick people a little bit into thinking I’m more arty by making creative, artistic, visual work and applying it to commercial music. Maybe. I don’t know.

I’m fine around other people’s feelings. It doesn’t make me nervous or anxious.

I’m never going to sing the words, ‘I want to shut down the club,’ never, ever.

I don’t listen to the albums that I make, and I don’t listen to a lot of music as a whole.

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 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.

The accolades don’t nourish me – being with loved ones and my dogs does.

Melody is pure intuition. I don’t use any thinking brain when I do that. That’s totally in the zone.

I really felt like ‘Chandelier’ was a big pop song. But we weren’t sure what would happen if I wasn’t willing to show my face and do promo and go on tour and do the traditional kind of pop strategy. So I had no expectations.

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

I like to sing, and I like to make records – and that part is fun.

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.

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.

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

I like the Carpenters and Elvis.

I guess I don’t know if I’m comfortable with fame or touring or promo or any of that stuff, and I really discovered that I love working for people and co-writing and working under someone.

The weirder the better for me.

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.

I’m sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.

I can clear my mind, and lyrics just come out; it’s very easy for me.

A lot of people come up to me expecting to meet the person they have seen perform. It’s not going to happen, unless my mania, my stage person, responds to them and not the real me.

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

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 don’t really listen to music. I don’t. I watch television.

You never know what I’m gonna do.

Sometimes, after I finish the lyrics and have all the melodies and harmonies and the pop and vocal, I’ll be like, ‘I have to keep it. I love it too much.’

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.

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

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’m not selling a dream; I’m not selling fame like it is some sort of fantastic thing.

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

We all need to stand together and be a part of creating the future we hope to see.

I really feel like I’ve nailed songwriting. It’s my specialty; it’s what I’m good at.

I have a family I love. They tend to say, ‘Great job!’ Or ‘You work really hard! Good for you!’ Or ‘You look nice today!’ Or ‘Don’t be ridiculous, order the fries!’ Or ‘You are hilarious.’ That’s all the family I need.

If anyone besides famous people knew what it was like to be a famous person, they would never want to be famous.

That’s why ‘Chandelier’ was interesting to me… I wrote the song because there’s so many party-girl anthems in pop. And I thought it’d be interesting to do a different take on that.

I started dating JD Samson from Le Tigre, and suddenly I was listening to more up-tempo music and old dance music, like ESG and Gang of Four, and I thought, ‘Wow. This is fun.’

I don’t need to sing in front of thousands, as I can sing in the shower.

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.

This is a sick business. It’s so sad.

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 have so much to thank reality TV for.

I’d had a relationship with a woman when I was 20, but nobody cared then. As it came out at the same time as my fame, I started to have panic attacks.