Sia Quotes & Sayings

I love visual gags and gimmicks; I love them. — Sia Furler

You have to shelf your excitement and be realistic about your internal and external strengths and weaknesses. (p.70) — Injap Sia

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

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. — Sia Furler

Like blood, money is a blessing that should be shared, but you must be a responsible giver. — Injap Sia

Whatever achievements and successes I've had didn't happen overnight. It is all a product of guidance, hard work, careful planning, and intense, passionate execution over many years. (p. 69) — Injap Sia

I was born pretty lucky, an Aryan Australian, friendly girl, that gives you a lot of advantages in the world. I was unaware of people's fights or struggles for equality. I was really naive. — Sia Furler

I was excited to do something, even if I didn't know what it was. I think you need that feeling - that excitement, that fire - to make your dreams a reality. (p.59) — Injap Sia

There's time limits on how long people's attention spans will work. There's six weeks in each territory that you're really famous, then you, thank god, disappear again. — Sia Furler

I'm just completely obsessed with Die Antwoord. — Sia Furler

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. — Sia Furler

I like bands for a long time, even when they're not trendy anymore. I still like Arcade Fire. I've always liked Stevie Wonder. — Sia Furler

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

My hands were sticky with glue, and I hummed along to Sia, playing in the background. — Heather Demetrios

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

Sia's introspective, not depressing. There's a difference. — Heather Demetrios

I think my mission is to be in business so I can create a positive impact that will uplift the others around me. (p. 78) — Injap Sia

I liked when I was naive and I thought it was just about making good music. — Sia Furler

I don't go to shows because I just want to listen to the music performed live. I want to get to know the person who's performing it. Or I want to, like, take away a sense that I had an experience that nobody else is going to have again, or a unique experience for that moment. — Sia Furler

I guess I felt straight when I was allowed to get married. Now I feel queerer because I'm not. It's the only thing that's changed. I wouldn't measure it in icon status or how much my demographic has changed, but in the rage I feel, and being not equal. — Sia Furler

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

Worst music ever sells millions. The worst music with the shittiest lyrics. The fact is that they pay radio stations to put it on the radio, then you've heard it a million times when you're driving from your shitty job to your shitty house. It's indoctrination, it's sad. — Sia Furler

Don't Forget The Story "The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others." Erik Erikson — Sia Mohajer

Is heaven also made in Taiwan? And does Jesus really know how to speak Samoan? — Sia Figiel

Mozart and Neil Diamond may have begun with the same idea, but that a work of art is more than an idea is confirmed by the difference between the 'Soave sia il vento' and 'Kentucky Woman.' We have different words for 'art' and 'idea' because they are two different things. — Mark Helprin

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

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

I never knew that I would be performing on talk shows with Sia. — Maddie Ziegler

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

Don't be afraid if your idea is crazy, because good things come from crazy ideas. (p. 96) — Injap Sia

I feel like I've always had gay fans, I don't think my dating a woman has changed my demographic, but it certainly changed the way I feel about politics. — Sia Furler

It's alright to keep and open mind, but at a certain point - once you have thoroughly completed your homework - you have to learn how to stop and focus on intensely and passionately executing these goals step by step. You have to repel the distractions. — Injap Sia

I think that it depends what you mean by successful. If you mean 'make money' you need to be part of the machine unless you're one of those superhuman people who can do everything by yourself, and have workaholic tendencies and really good advisers and a good investor. — Sia Furler

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. — Sia Furler

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

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

Help, I have done it again I have been here many times before Hurt myself again today And the worst part is There's no-one else to blame. — Sia Furler

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

Fame made me develop a panic disorder. — Sia Furler

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. — Sia Furler

I don't want to be famous, or recognizable, — Sia Furler

I've got thick skin and an elastic heart — Sia Furler

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

podcast called Skeptics Guide to the Universe, — Sia Mohajer

I'm gonna live like tomorrow doesn't exist. — Sia Furler

I don't work with Sia every day; it depends what we do, whether we do performances or music videos, so the schedule is weird, but when we're off, we always try to see each other in between. We just hang out; we went to brunch one time, but for the most part I go to her house, and we eat and watch TV. — Maddie Ziegler

Being hunted, paparazzi-style , doesn't appeal to me. — Sia Furler

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

Oi, doll, ignore him,' said Sia, using a notebook to fan her face. 'Sweet lord, I'm like a human hot-water bottle wrapped in doona in front of a heater at the moment. And did I tell you about the constant farting? — Gabrielle Tozer

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. — Sia Furler

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, — Sia Furler

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

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

I may cry ruining my make up,
Wash away all things you've taken..
I don't care if I don't look pretty,
Big girls cry when their hearts are breaking.. — Sia Furler

It was really shocking to me that when I was dating a dude I could get married and my taxes were 8 grand less, blah blah blah. — Sia Furler

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

I don't want to be known as just a 'Dance Moms' competitor. I'd really like to be known for all of Sia's work, too. — Maddie Ziegler

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. — Sia Furler

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

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. — Sia Furler

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. — Sia Furler

I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted. — Sia Furler

It was actually very difficult., especially during the first five years of the start-up stage, when all the odds seemed to be against us - this is probably true for most entrepreneurs. To succeed, you really have to put your heart and soul into it. (p. 71) — Injap Sia