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 More Quotes by Sia Furler More Quotes From Sia Furler I'm an advocate of 'it's not what you are, it's who you are.' Sia Furler who-you-are I'm gonna live like tomorrow doesn't exist. Sia Furler tomorrow I don't want to be famous, or recognizable. Sia Furler want I liked when I was naive and I thought it was just about making good music. Sia Furler naive People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff. Sia Furler honest horror people 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 radio house jobs I've got thick skin and an elastic heart. Sia Furler thick-skin skins heart I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy. Sia Furler energy 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 pops stars persons When people say, "Show your face, you're not ugly." I want to say, "I know. I'm not doing it because I think I'm ugly; I'm trying to have some control over my image. And I'm allowed to maintain some modicum of privacy. But also I'd like not to be picked apart or for people to observe when I put on ten pounds or I have a hair extension out of place." Most people don't have to be under that pressure, and I'd like to be one of them. I don't go on Twitter. Because when people say things like, I don't know, "I hope you get cancer and die," it hurts my feelings. Sia Furler cancer hurt thinking 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 office dog home Fame made me develop a panic disorder. Sia Furler panic made fame I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted. Sia Furler insulted sensitive upset 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 successful mean thinking Knowing now what goes into making a successful artist, it's disheartening. Sia Furler knowing artist successful 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 dating gay thinking 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 girl taken heart 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 married icons rage I just want to make a beautiful film. I've had it in my head for so long, so I want to try. Every now and again I get scared. And that's not really how I operate in songwriting or as Sia the artist, the singer. I don't operate from a place of fear. But this is such a new area for me. I still have some insecurity. So, like, once a week I get washed from the top of my skull down to my toes with this vomitous feeling of fear. I think, "Just don't do it. You don't have to do it. You're already a singer and a songwriter. Really, you don't have to make a movie.". Sia Furler artist beautiful thinking 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 moments unique want
