Kiiara Quotes

Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.

I won't write every one of my personal experiences into songs as I think it could be a bit depressing - and its nice to not be too open.

I haven't been brought down because people are focused on who I'm dating, what I'm eating, or what handbag is the best handbag - that's so cheap to me. But if others want to open up about their personal lives, that is their choice. It's not for me to judge.

Obviously you don't want to be anonymous, but you don't want everyone to know your life.

I have chosen to keep my personal life separate from my music, as the two are exclusive from each other, and I want to remain that way. I'll talk music, production, writing songs, touring with anyone but keep religion, politics and world affairs off the table, as my expertise is in songs and music.

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.

My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.

People do want to know the personal things. How far is too far to go with personal lives?

Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.

I just don't want to talk about my personal life. I feel like it's mine, I'm not trying to promote it. It's nice to have things that are your own, that you value enough that you don't have to use to sell a movie.

I'm very confident in my sexuality, and I really don't like talking about my romantic life in the press.

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.

I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what's going on in my life.

It was a really strange way that I came into music. Once I gave voice to it, the pit of emotions that I guess I knew was inside of me for a long time, the stream never really stopped.

I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it.

There's nothing risky in talking about your personal life. People do it all the time.

Every song that I've done is me in one way or another.

Singing is just another outlet to express what I feel and to show everyone who I really am. I really don't talk about my personal life that much in interviews because that's my life, but with music, the way I write explains who I am.

Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.

You know, I've sung a lot of emotional songs in my life, but when you're writing it yourself, it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.

Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you.

I'm just basically trying to make music that feels good. Right now in the music industry there's a real lack of intimacy. You don't really connect with the artist as much anymore, and you don't really understand where they are. I'm basically doing music that illustrates who I am and where I am in my life.

I listen to music to when I'm feeling a certain way or to make myself feel a certain way. So why not make my own music inspired by true emotions?

I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.

For me, I would prefer to not have my face on the album cover. I don't mind being in the public, but it's just not really my personality, and it's not really why I'm into this. I like making art, and that's it. I don't really want to be a celebrity, seriously. I like my privacy.