Life Quote by Shura

People think I'm cool - it's a virtue of my job! In real life I'm absolutely not cool, but I think if you have…

— Shura

I'm massively inspired by Janet Jackson, and I adore Whitney Houston and Madonna.

— Shura

I worked in a post-production facility for television, but in the machine room, so I was one of the nerds, essentially - making sure…

— Shura

Is the mainstream becoming more queer? Or is it the opposite? That artists like me are mainstreaming queer music?

— Shura

I love camping, everything about it - tents, the camping stove, sleeping bags. I'm obsessed with technology, be it synthesizers and speakers or tents…

— Shura

I'd written songs since I was 16, but I never thought that I would be a musician full time.

— Shura

There's something about rhythm and bass sections generally, how the bass and drums interact, that's basically the soul of any song.

— Shura

There's a part of me that's ambitious.

— Shura

'Nothing's Real' is about my first-ever panic attack, which I had about four months after getting my record deal.

— Shura

A recording of a moment in time, where I was physically there, and it's now in a song for all eternity, in a way.…

— Shura

I would feel really dishonest writing a song that was really sassy, or really confident, because I'm not a supremely confident being. I think…

— Shura

Pop music often deals with subject matter like breakups, or you have songs that are like, "I will love you forever," or "you're so…

— Shura