Sia Furler Quotes

I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can't be a certain type of writer to a certain type of person all the time. It will kill you.

To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task.

The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.

I've never been like Angelina Jolie, who at one time was spewing out this prototype Bad Girl stuff for people to consume. I've never boxed myself in that way. People can create boxes for me by all means, but it doesn't mean I'm going to step inside them.

Hollywood is all about making an entrance. I don't want to be a walking advertisement for anyone other than myself.

I enjoy selling my music. I don't enjoy selling myself.

My purpose is to make a movie to make you warm. To give you some heat. Now, this rational world has become a place where only what is cool is good. Do you cut the movie on the basis of the beat of modernity or the basis of the beat of your own heart?

My biggest challenge was to make sure that the songs I did were who I am.

You know what, if you compromise and do stuff that's not becoming to you as an artist, that's your fault.

I would never tell someone else how to use their platform, because I think I'm much more comfortable allowing the work that I do to speak for itself.

I want to represent my name to the fullest: Ginuwine.

I learned a lot from Elvis. He never took his image seriously. So many performers today put their image before themselves. It can ruin them. Like Elvis, I never took my image seriously.

I feel like my rise is connected to my lyrics, my look, my dance, my character, it all feeds into the same funnel, which is me, myself.

I've been writing way before 'X Factor,' and I've been doing shows before 'X Factor.' And everything I did on this show was me being me. Same way I acted in the show is the same way I act now as an artist.

The worst frame of mind to be in is what the fans like or what the fans want, because then you lose the authenticity of who you are as an artist and who you are as a person.

It's really tough to make a name for yourself without compromising and without fitting yourself into a real specific mold. When I made the choice that I would be involved in every aspect of music and not necessarily make music for radio or MTV, I was saying, 'OK, this is me. You decide who it is.'

My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that's a lovely addition.

I was trying to find my way into the music business still, but I didn't want to portray something that I wasn't. I really wanted to be just me.

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

I'm totally open to exploring different types of music. I just have to always remember to be true to who I am.

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.

I am always who I am, and anyone who's known me forever will tell you that. I guess there's enough of a child in me that that's important.

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

Sometimes, there's a preconceived notion of how a scene or how a work should be delivered. And I see young performers sometimes try and deliver that, and it's not really true to their voice or who they are.