People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff.

I'll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don't have to be famous.

I'm gonna live like tomorrow doesn't exist.

I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.

I don't need to be rich anymore; I don't need to be a millionaire.

I just want to make a beautiful film. I've had it in my head for so long, so I want to try. Every now and again I get scared. And that's not really how I operate in songwriting or as Sia the artist, the singer. I don't operate from a place of fear. But this is such a new area for me. I still have some insecurity. So, like, once a week I get washed from the top of my skull down to my toes with this vomitous feeling of fear. I think, "Just don't do it. You don't have to do it. You're already a singer and a songwriter. Really, you don't have to make a movie.".

I've got thick skin and an elastic heart.