Sia Furler Quotes

Pushing the boundaries of what's acceptable - to me, that's something I'm definitely interested in and want to pursue.

Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.

If anyone ever tells me something doesn't go together, it makes me want to try it.

Business people want things to be safe but that's rubbish to me. In music nothing should be safe.

As an actor, I still have to remind myself of daring to let go and not to repeat myself.

I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like to write.

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.

I like to step outside of what people's idea of me might be. I suppose that makes me a bit of a rule-breaker. I like to take chances.

I guess I still have this motto: 'What else can I get away with?' And unpredictability in film - that's the hardest thing there is.

I feel my role is to push boundaries. I don't like things to be safe and sedentary. So controversy is the cross I have to bear.

What people don't realize is that when you start making things outside of the convention of what is normal or good or 'best practices,' you're also shedding some of the baggage that comes with the concept of what a game 'should' be.

I guess I should say I like to do things that people say you can't do.

One of the things with the second record, a word I held close to my chest was 'brave.' To take chances to go outside the box and explore. To continue to toss off any expectation that our fans or anyone else might have of us, to just tap into who I am as a writer and artist and really just operate within that freedom of creation.

It's always been my intention to never be boxed in. I never like to do something that it feels like I've done before.

Christine and the Queens is about not being safe.

You've got to know the rules to break them.

Art isn't about following the rules. It's about breaking them.

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

I just like being a social experiment sometimes. I really should not be allowed in public. But I just go out into the public just to see people's reaction.

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

I take chances. I don't limit myself. I don't think anybody who listens to Boston would have predicted hearing a female rapper on the beginning of the song 'Sail Away.' But that's what fit.

I have a certain temperament, a disposition that I think lends itself to not playing outside the lines that much. But I do test the boundaries, certainly, and break one or two of my own. Some people are mystified by it, but not me.