Christine and the Queens Quotes

Christine and the Queens

Profession : Musician

Birth : June 1, 1988

On stage, I feel like I'm invincible, like nothing bad can happen. I can be myself. I feel like I shrink when I'm off stage.

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Christine, as a stage character, is just a way for me to be more daring, to be more out of the box, to be stronger and to use everything that could weigh me down like a fuel, like an energy.

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I've always really been interested in observing people's postures, the way they speak with their hands, the way they communicate things with their body language.

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I think 'Chris' is way more about that, about living desire as a force of chaos and about reveling in that chaos.

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Before I created Christine, I was actually really girly. Maybe I was trying to hide something, but I was trying too hard to be a girl, and I didn't know what it meant. I was afraid of being myself.

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Sometimes when I travel, I like to find things that relate to where I am.

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I'm often lost in my dreams.

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Every masculine hero narrative I could find I wanted to steal for myself and twist to my size.

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I'm in love with artists that are really difficult to cover or to copy. You can only try to copy them, but you will never succeed because it's intertwined with really personal references and really personal ways to exist on stage. They are really strong individuals, and are writing their own songs and know where they want to go.

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I love the idea of constantly altering yourself.

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I use Twitter to be my best self: fun, dateable. I don't get paranoid with Twitter, only in real life. I write so I feel comfortable, not speaking.

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I wanted 'Comme si' to immediately indicate that something changed in my life, mainly because I became the hero of my own desires instead of just dreaming about them.

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Queer is about intense questioning that can't be made nice and glossy.

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It's always odd to me when people say, 'Where does Heloise finish and Chris start?' It's the same thing. I'm just putting a theatrical form to my expression.

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I love when I dive into lyrics that give me human complexity and intricate narrative.

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I don't remember my 20s as a good place.

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Christine and the Queens is born out of a particular moment in my life where I was quite low.

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No matter what you eventually become - free, empowered - the lingering feeling of 'once an outsider, always an outsider' is very vivid for me.

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I remember writing '5 Dollars' out of intense listening sessions of Bruce Springsteen. I don't know if it's obvious, but I was obsessed with how limpid Bruce Springsteen's melodies are: It's such a great way to do storytelling and to still be melodic and catchy.

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