Quotes from Shura
I'm massively inspired by 'True Blue'-era Madonna, but she is absolutely confident and in control of the situation.
- Shura
I was obsessed with 'The Lion King' as a kid, and I really wanted to go work in an animal sanctuary and have my Lara Croft moment.
- Shura
I got this advice that if you know a panic attack is happening, just sit back and go, 'Okay, this is happening to me, but it'll be over. You'll be fine. You'll live.'
- Shura
Pop should be weird, and I realize as I say this that I'm not the weirdest person in the world. But if that means a girl sounding like Kylie Minogue and looking like Kurt Cobain, then so be it.
- Shura
With 'White Light,' I had just finished watching 'Under the Skin' and was really obsessed with the idea of science fiction presented as normality.
- Shura
I couldn't be a Taylor Swift. I would really suck at being Taylor Swift.
- Shura
Producing albums is 100 per cent where I would love to be, later in my career.
- Shura
If you told teenage me that I would end up supporting Tegan and Sara for a month in North America, my head would have probably exploded.
- Shura
On one level, I am a massive joker and can't take anything seriously, but on the other hand, I'm incredibly serious and a deep thinker, so I have that dichotomy within me.
- Shura
'Nothing's Real' is about my first-ever panic attack, which I had about four months after getting my record deal.
- Shura
I'm really freaked out by time. How, for instance, what I did last week is not real in the sense that it's happened. It's just a memory that's filed away in my brain.
- Shura
Sometimes we feel like we're only interacting with what's already happening; we don't actually affect anything - sometimes I feel like that, anyway.
- Shura