Olly Alexander

I feel sorry for straight people.

— Olly Alexander

Words are important. They do matter.

— Olly Alexander

I've always loved sci-fi and fantasy.

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I am obsessed with Matt Healy.

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I love being alone.

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I come from a single-parent family and my Mum is super liberal.

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I just feel lucky to be able to do stuff I enjoy.

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Pop music has a pretty good track record of embracing queer culture.

— Olly Alexander

I want to do a song with Rihanna - we need to make that work.

— Olly Alexander

All the best songs have an element of sadness.

— Olly Alexander

When I go on stage and perform, I'm an extreme version of myself.

— Olly Alexander

I love TLC and Aaliyah and all those early-millennial R&B singers.

— Olly Alexander

I think all of the best songs are about heartbreak and love.

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It's just a very weird thing to have a relationship that's commented on by the world wide web.

— Olly Alexander

We have to listen and learn from each other to lift each other up, so we can all live the life we…

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Personally, I've always been ashamed of my body and I've hated being so skinny - I had an eating disorder for so…

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I'm fascinated by technology and how it is changing the way we live and view our humanity.

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I think the reason I've been so committed to advocacy is because I see so many people in pain.

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I was never diagnosed with an eating disorder but I definitely had a difficult relationship with food.

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I used to travel a lot as a kid and when I first moved to England I felt lonely and my parents…

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Blackpool is a hilarious place. It's kind of like the Las Vegas of the U.K. It's by the sea and there's a…

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Dating shows should exist for people who aren't straight. They're out there, there aren't enough of them. Whether you try and squeeze…

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For a long time - when we first started getting a much higher level of attention - I really struggled with feeling…

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When I was younger I thought that if you were famous and successful, it would mean that you just felt happy all…

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With anxiety and depression, what's been most helpful to me has been learning a toolbox - a set of skills I can…

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So many queer people come out constantly for the rest of their lives, ya know? To the people they work with, to…

— Olly Alexander

What's great about being gay is that you can celebrate all types of sexualities, because we understand that being queer means you…

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School was like a hostile place. I just hated being at school. I think some people really thrive in that environment. I…

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I like how it presented this contradiction because traditionally gay people have been shut out from the church, so 'Sanctify' was claiming…

— Olly Alexander

The word queer first started being used in the late 1980s by members of the community who wanted to reclaim something negative…

— Olly Alexander

There was just this stage where I realised that people were listening to what I was saying and I could actually say…

— Olly Alexander

I get trolled. The usual stuff - sometimes it's homophobic, like gay hate.

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I want to feel sexy with the body I have.

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We can't police the way people express their sexuality.

— Olly Alexander

I had such intense self-loathing for so long.

— Olly Alexander

I get a real thrill for being 'overtly queer' in my aesthetic.

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I'd love to work with SBTRKT if he'd have me.

— Olly Alexander

I can be a really awkward frontman on stage.

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I don't want to be normal, I don't want to grow up.

— Olly Alexander

Normal is not a thing. No one's actually normal.

— Olly Alexander