Christine and the Queens Quotes

Christine and the Queens

Profession : Musician

Birth : June 1, 1988

Festivals are happy places, and you don't really want to enjoy them on your own.

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Fashion is a way to transform yourself. By choosing your own silhouette and shape, you can constantly change who you are.

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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 about pure desire and not how I want people to look in order for them to be desired by me.

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When you dance, you own everything you have. You are really in your own body. You do it with your muscles and your bones and your weight and your height - it's how to love yourself by moving.

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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 infectious.

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When I started to write music, I desperately wanted to relate to people. But when I became famous, I could relate less. I thought, 'Oh, am I trapped in my own creation?' I was really lonely.

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No one can escape politics. We are all in it. Even if we shy away from it, I just decide to embrace it. And I try to be an ally for other fights.

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There are lots of ways to be a feminist. Beyonce, for example, is a beautiful example of feminine sensuality and is still really powerful. My character and my inner essence is more like an awkward 15-year-old boy, like a teenager backstage, like, 'Yeah, what's up?' That's what I'm trying to channel.

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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 enjoy this confusion. Heloise? Christine? Chris? Maybe I will be called C at some point.

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It's the strong will of an artist that really inspires me.

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I think, from the beginning, I was healed and inspired by queer culture, and Christine and the Queens, as an idea from the beginning, is queer because it questions the norm.

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

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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 of that risk are not always easy to deal with.

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I love funny women.

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Dancing, for me, is like a second language. It's the best way for me to get out of my shell and be expressive in a very personal way.

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In real life, I feel tiny and quite embarrassed all the time. But when people come up to me in France and want to talk to Christine, it's okay. It's cool. Because they're really talking about themselves, their own Christines.

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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 into a dark, weird phase that French people don't really like. They consider his music from that time weak. But for me, it's the best.

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I see theatre everywhere, actually. We're all kind of performing a version of ourselves every morning by choosing the clothes and how we appear - but the stage is so emphasising that I really feel comfortable in it.

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In theater, what I loved were wordless plays and working in silence.

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