Sia Furler Quotes

I don't listen to a lot of music; I write more music than I listen to, for sure.

Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.

One of the great things that I loved about doing solo - which I ended up doing because I was too shy to ever try out for bands back in the day - I could sit there with a list of songs and 'paint away' for the show.

I write a lot of rhymes, but I don't really end up using them a lot of times, and I end up just freestyling. I like to write music, though, more than I like to freestyle, to be honest.

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

I usually work on a film soundtrack for two years, turning in a song every few months, and that keeps my creative energy high, because I'm constantly rotating projects. The trick is to make sure I don't work too hard and get exhausted.

I'm in the studio for hours in that tiny little box, and really, the performing part is what I'm most excited about.

I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.

Success is good, but I have seen the other side. I don't think much about it. I just work towards making a good melody, with catchy yet meaningful lyrics, and as I'm a music producer and arranger myself, I know the sound I need.

I'm constantly writing music and keeping myself busy somehow.

I have always wanted to sing at some point in my life. In fact, when I was shooting for 'Oohalu Gusagusalaade,' I would randomly start singing on the sets, and I even earned a nickname 'Radio' on that film.

If I weren't a performer, I would be still be writing and songwriting. Plus, I also really want to get into producing.

I'm always writing music.

I started writing music around 20 years old.

I realized that music was the only thing I really thought about - music and writing.

I don't ever go and write music for an album. That's not something I do. I don't go and write music for an audience or a career; I don't do that at all. I write basically all the time. I'm addicted to it.

It used to be enough for me to get on stage and sing. I kind of crave the performance part now. I write knowing it's going to happen, which I didn't do before.

I am always writing music. I have got unlimited ideas because I have been clean and sober for my entire life.

Just going through a lot in my life, becoming more confident in myself, writing my own music and just really getting in the studio and just doing it.

If I don't stay creative and if I don't stay in the studio and keep writing and recording, I get kind of depressed. I can't quite remember what I'm supposed to be doing with myself.

We write so many songs, it is difficult to narrow them down.

I never stopped writing music, I just stopped writing songs. I've been writing music continually ever since the last album of original tunes, "River Of Dreams" in '93.

Writing songs always trumps whatever else was on the schedule, it really is the most important and can be so fickle, you have to grab it when it's there.

I'd hear a tune in my head and the words would come. And then, very suddenly it just stopped. It seemed too stilted to try and learn how to write a song, to go to round robins and to learn things from other people on how to write a song. So I just stopped and did other things.

I usually write from the rhythm section...If a drummer got a funky beat on some things - like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that's even - I can write something.