Sia Furler
Sia Furler
Sia Kate Isobelle Furler, referred to mononymously as Sia, is an Australian singer and songwriter. She started her career as a singer in the local Adelaide acid jazz band Crisp in the mid-1990s. In 1997, when Crisp disbanded, she released her debut studio album titled OnlySee on Flavoured Records in Australia. Following the event, she moved to London, England and provided lead vocals for British duo Zero 7...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth18 December 1975
CityAdelaide, Australia
CountryAustralia
I'm sort of a gay man trapped in a woman's body when it comes to music sometimes - it's crowded in here!
Fame made me develop a panic disorder.
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.
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 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.
Knowing now what goes into making a successful artist, it's disheartening.
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.
People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff.
I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.
I may cry ruining my make up, Wash away all things you've taken.. I don't care if I don't look pretty, Big girls cry when their hearts are breaking..
I get to sit at home with the dogs on the sofa, record in a closet in the office, send them off and, if I'm lucky, make a million dollars,
I've got thick skin and an elastic heart
I'm an advocate of 'it's not what you are, it's who you are.'