Sia Furler Quotes

The first time I went to New York, it was really exciting, and I thought, given half the chance, it would be nice to live there - the same with London.

Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.

I studied for my degree in London and consequently ended up spending five years away from Cornwall. I deliberately moved away from the coast to experience a different way of life.

I grew up in North Yorkshire, but now London is home.

I've been living, I've lived in New York since I was 18 years old and traveled pretty much all over the world.

I'd never left America until I was 18.

Spending my 20s in Detroit has been incredible for me.

Don't get me wrong - I love London, and still have an apartment there.

I moved away when I was young, when I was about 19. I'd literally come from an area with dirt roads and stuff like that, right to the centre of a city of about five million people. It's been great. I'm based in New York, and every day, it's amazing.

The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up.

An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937.

I lived on my own when I was living in New York City when I was 18, working on a show. And that definitely kind of grows you up a little faster than a normal 18-year-old in college, so I think so. I think I've got some street smarts.

Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.

I don't think anybody should get married before they're 30. You're too young to really know yourself.

After living in LA for 8 years, I sort of wanted a change, but there's not much production in New York, which is where I primarily live, so I just sort of drifted over to London.

Coming to Hollywood at 19 and living in a single apartment with one other guy on Venice Beach was a massive contrast to my upbringing.

It was not until my 20s that I began to creep toward maturity.

I grew up in New York City and in London.

I understood the feeling of being 17 and living with your parents somewhere, and then being 18 and living in New York and having a city at your disposal.

When I left for college, I put Miami behind me and tried to have a life of the mind. I got a graduate degree. I traveled. I even married a fellow writer, whose only real estate was a dingy one-bedroom apartment in Paris, where we lived.

I love working in Dublin, but when I'm in London, I'm more focused on my career.

I lived in New York for five years; I've lived in Barcelona, Rome, and Paris at different times. When I was 18, I was dying to live in a city.

I was born in Belgium, but we moved to Kilburn when I was one, so 'Time Out' has always been in the background of my life.

I think a spell abroad for anybody is incredibly useful. It gives you a great sense of perspective, and you see other ways of doing things.

Going to London at 18 to study drama and theatre made me grow up really fast.