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. Christine and the Queens Read Quote
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. Christine and the Queens Read Quote
I’m terrified of dying because of everything being too unfinished. I would be happy being a ghost. Christine and the Queens Read Quote
I have Googled so many things related to possible diseases, and it’s always ridiculous. Like, ‘My toe is hurting. Do I have cancer?’ ‘I have a scratch in my eye. Am I going to die soon?’ ‘Is eating a soup going to make me die?’ Christine and the Queens Read Quote
No matter what you eventually become – free, empowered – the lingering feeling of ‘once an outsider, always an outsider’ is very vivid for me. Christine and the Queens Read Quote
When you write, you don’t really think of how honest you are being – it’s only when you record that you understand how much of yourself you’re giving. Christine and the Queens Read Quote
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. Christine and the Queens Read Quote
I invented Christine as a survival technique. I was inspired by the idea that everyone could have a Christine inside to wake. Christine and the Queens Read Quote
