Christine and the Queens Quotes

Christine and the Queens

Profession : Musician

Birth : June 1, 1988

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

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There's a lack of ambition in politics in terms of what we expect from the government, what it means to have a state.

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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, but one of the things that bored me about theatre was that it was not accessible to everyone.

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I'm not a pop star. I don't feel like one. I'm always joking that I'm actually an eight-year-old boy dreaming about being a pop star.

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My whole life is queer.

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Tapping into a more masculine, macho culture, I got in touch with my femininity, but differently. Macho culture is also pride of the body and showing it off - a relationship to theatricality, to construction. It's about owning your narrative again.

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I'm kind of resistant to being told no, not being wanted. It fills me with energy.

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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've always been the one who is more enthusiastic about Christmas than my family. I regress to a child state, chanting carols.

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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 fiddle with, all the technical stuff. I know what I want to do, but I wouldn't do it all my own, I would go crazy. This is insanely hard, to do an album by yourself. But I admire her for that.

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The gender question has always obsessed me.

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

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

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I invented 'Christine' as a survival technique to deal with many things. I felt it would save me.

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Typically, in France, someone in my position should keep their mouth shut. I'm an entertainer, operating in the realm of pop, and it's often looked down upon for a pop artist to take a stand, to have convictions or opinions. But I don't think the two are incompatible or mutually exclusive.

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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 and read everything. It's always enlightening to see what they hate about you: I'm not pretty enough to be on stage, or my music doesn't make any sense. It feels good to read that, like I'm heading in the right direction!

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The character I've created, Christine, is mainly the first attempt for me to escape all the secret injunctions we have as girls all the time. Like, be pretty but be polite. Don't take too much space. All those things that didn't mean anything to me. I just decided to turn them around with my character.

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Male rock stars are sexy because they desire you first. I want to be like that.

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I think I used Christine, who is my stage character, as an excuse to finally be myself, as if I needed to say, 'Oh this character is going to be the woman I wanted to be.'

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