Sia Furler Quotes

On tour, you never have a home, you don't get used to anything, and you're always super busy.

I can't sleep the first night in a hotel room.

The other thing is I don't want to move any more. I have moved so many times in my life.

I'm always struck when I go somewhere I've never been before, especially if it's in my home town, by just how different the atmosphere can be, and how disorienting it can be - especially if there's any kind of trouble.

I don't want to start getting my little violin out, but travelling across the world constantly and staying in hotels is tough, man.

I'm flying all around the world, and it's hard to be settled.

It's kind of hard when you're on the road all the time, from one show to the next, from one hotel room to the next hotel room, it's kind of hard to think about everything.

Only players can understand what it's like, travelling and playing every three days, it gets on top of you.

Around 1978, I got really, really sick of waking up in hotel rooms when I don't know where I am.

When you're shooting that fast end to end, you wake up in a hotel and you don't know where you are. You're dreaming of Singapore, you wake up in Hong Kong. Or you just lose track. It's one of the reasons I'm staying in hotels that I know I've stayed in before, and they don't look like other hotels.

Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.

Schlepping around from city to city is nothing I want to do.

Sometimes I have a nervous breakdown over my suitcase - over socks - because your brain just goes, 'I just can't pack again. I can't.' You're looking at your suitcase going, 'I'm in five countries in two weeks, and it's four different seasons.' That's when my brain melts.

I can't switch time zones any more. London is one of my favourite places, but I'm always so zonked that I can't appreciate it. It's like a six-inch sheet of glass between me and Charing Cross Road.

Anything that keeps me off balance is vital.

I felt, when I was 20, I wasn't quite ready for the physical contact of 82 games. Mentally, it was tough. I forgot what city we were in most of the time. I can't even imagine going through it at 18 or 19.

I work a lot, so I don't really live anywhere for very long periods of time.

The worst thing for a kid is to move around and switch schools, but as an actor, you go from job to job, meeting strangers and becoming very close right away. I've become adept at that.

The thing that scares us the most is when familiar things operate in unfamiliar ways.

This is my life! I'm not getting a lot of sleep, but I am getting a lot of frequent-flyer miles.

We're on the road 300 days a year. There's no recovery time. It's a test of your physical and mental endurance.

When I first walked into Uber, it was very difficult because people were unsure about what was going to happen - there was a real sense of powerlessness.

We travel so much, I never adjust to time zones any more.

The way I stand and my posture really complicates my opponents; they don't understand it and don't know what to do about. The way I stand there in front of them really throws them off.

I loathe nowheres - airports and bland hotels. I would rather be in an unpleasant, uncomfortable place rather than one just adrift, floating around.