Christine and the Queens

My whole life is queer.

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I'm often lost in my dreams.

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For me, everything is a performance.

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I love funny women.

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I'm just drawn to hands.

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My words are my sword.

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I trust people who look like animals.

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I love people who go on stage and blossom like a weird flower.

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Gendered performance is just constant theater.

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For some people, it's impossible to escape binaries.

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Sometimes when I travel, I like to find things that relate to where I am.

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When I read a book, it's Lou Reed's voice narrating it.

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I don't remember my 20s as a good place.

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The core of all the music I love is a good bass line and a good rhythm.

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I've always been obsessed with being on stage and putting shows together.

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When you write, you don't really think of how honest you are being - it's only when you record that you understand…

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I've experienced being properly lost in my desires, and it's really influenced my writing.

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On stage, I feel like I'm invincible, like nothing bad can happen. I can be myself. I feel like I shrink when…

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Every time I think about a girl to motivate me, I think about Grimes. She's one of my heroes.

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I'm a huge pop music lover. I do love the immediacy, the organic fever that happens when a pop track is so…

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Sometimes, in my adult life, I have memories of when I was young and really scared of being too close to people.

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I love when I dive into lyrics that give me human complexity and intricate narrative.

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No matter what you eventually become - free, empowered - the lingering feeling of 'once an outsider, always an outsider' is very…

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The success of the first album was almost an anomaly, and it could remain a fantastic anomaly. It was not crafted for…

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The first album was a coming-of-age album - I don't like the phrase, but when you listen to it, you can tell…

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I broke up with my first girlfriend because I was out of love. I was crushing so hard on her for a…

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Most people know Serge Gainsbourg's 'Histoire de Melody Nelson' album, but what's interesting is that in the early '90s, he actually went…

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For me, the male gaze is oppressive. And I hope if we are building a female gaze that it's inclusive, and it's…

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Christine was me wanting to break free. I was tired of being prissy and shrinking and apologising all of the time, so…

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Music is contagious and everywhere and democratic, and that's what drew me in. I was interested in acting and being a director,…

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When the image that I built around the first album was crumbling, it was scary: the risk pays off, but the resonances…

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Grimes is the extreme version of doing everything yourself. I think this is impressive, because she is fiddling with things I couldn't…

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I'm in love with artists that are really difficult to cover or to copy. You can only try to copy them, but…

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I have an obsession with haters: the great mess of the Internet expressing itself. I love to type my name on Twitter…

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Basically, when I like a song, I have to dance.

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I wish I could change bodies and destinies.

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I'm kind of an obsessive person, and touring is repetitive in the best way.

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Christine and the Queens is about not being safe.

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I love Lou Reed because his voice sounds like your inner conscience.

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When I take risks, I win. When I do the safe thing, it's a disaster.

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