Knowing now what goes into making a successful artist, it’s disheartening.
I think that it depends what you mean by successful. If you mean ‘make money’ you need to be part of the machine unless you’re one of those superhuman people who can do everything by yourself, and have workaholic tendencies and really good advisers and a good investor.
I’m an advocate of ‘it’s not what you are, it’s who you are.’
It was really shocking to me that when I was dating a dude I could get married and my taxes were 8 grand less, blah blah blah.
I’ll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don’t have to be famous.
A lot of people come up to me expecting to meet the person they have seen perform. It’s not going to happen, unless my mania, my stage person, responds to them and not the real me.
I’m gonna live like tomorrow doesn’t exist.
When you’re entertaining all day long and that’s your work, you end up really very tired. You don’t have a lot of energy left over for your loved ones.
I was born pretty lucky, an Aryan Australian, friendly girl, that gives you a lot of advantages in the world. I was unaware of people’s fights or struggles for equality. I was really naive.
I don’t go to shows because I just want to listen to the music performed live. I want to get to know the person who’s performing it. Or I want to, like, take away a sense that I had an experience that nobody else is going to have again, or a unique experience for that moment.
I have social anxiety. It’s easier up on stage because there’s security in being there. When I’m off stage I’m trying not to be a manic freak. I’m quite shy.
I hope I am a psychotherapist’s dream. I’ve spent enough hours in therapy.
I’m sort of a gay man trapped in a woman’s body when it comes to music sometimes – it’s crowded in here!
I’m sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.
I don’t really even go out that much now except to walk my dogs, because I don’t want to be recognised.
I think it would be very difficult to maintain one kind of art or whatever for your whole life. I think it’s unrealistic.
I was weirdly obsessed with music until I was 11, and then I turned into a nerd.
I’m just completely obsessed with Die Antwoord.
Fame made me develop a panic disorder.
I feel like I’ve always had gay fans, I don’t think my dating a woman has changed my demographic, but it certainly changed the way I feel about politics.