Sia Furler Quotes

I don't over-sing anymore, which I used to suffer from terribly because I couldn't hear myself.

I feel like maybe I get more nervous when I'm singing. One, it's live. Two, there's a lot of people watching. And three, you have to make sure you get the right notes and everything.

I just want to get on stage and sing and be happy.

Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.

I love playing in front of people. I feel powerful, 'cause I don't have to really say anything - I'm just singing.

When you find yourself on stage singing and you are embarrassed about what you are singing in front of your peers, then you have to think about your priorities.

I seem to be able to disassociate my insecurities. I know a lot of actors - some of the best actors in the world - can't bear to watch themselves and I have to say I can't relate to that.

I'm not the guy that thinks I'm a perfect singer.

I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy.

Every time I get up and sing for people, I get such a high. I just want to do it again and again.

If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience.

Well, you know it was so different from when you rehearsed. You're out there with your guitar and trying to get a sound, but it doesn't sound anything like what you expect!

I'm happier on the runway than I am on the red carpet. Because then I am not being myself. I think, on the red carpet, it's a weird, like, 'Who am I? Am I me? Am I them?'

If I put on a tie and play what I really think I am, I'm a disaster.

I'd say it's harder to play with an acoustic guitar strapped over your shoulder for a few hundred people than it is to play in front of thousands with an entire bombastic band behind you.

Musicians want to be heard. So I'm not hiding. But I do like to leave it there onstage and be myself, in that sense. Because some people carry it with them.

Live performance is everything. First of all, I have terrible stage fright. But beyond that, once the music starts, it's OK.

I was in a band when I was in high school, and I was bitten by the performance bug, if anything else.

On the first recording, I wasn't singing out that much; I was shy with my singing.

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 tell young singers not to listen to themselves. What I hear is not what you hear.

My face, my self, what would they mean to anybody? Just another stiff. So this self of mine passes some other's self on the street - what do we have to say to each other? Hey there! Hi ya!That's about it. Nobody raises a hand. No one turns around to take another look.

There might be two or three songs I'm trying out. I've been singing these songs (on the new album) in the studio, but I haven't really done them live. It's intimate to sing them in a studio. Now, I've got to be on a stage and be in front of a lot of people.

I think I like singing when I'm singing live. It's just in the studio when it's a drag.

By a monstrous act of reductionism, the infinite depth of who you are is confused with a sound produced by the vocal cords." (p. 28)