I’d written songs since I was 16, but I never thought that I would be a musician full time. Shura Read Quote
My dad used to do a lot of music when he was young, so he had an 8-track MiniDisc recorder, and when he realized that I was getting on with it, he brought it upstairs to my room and showed me how to record and how, once you finished eight tracks, you can cut it down to two and have another six tracks to play with. Shura Read Quote
I’m a lesbian. That’s how I identify myself, but I think there’s a massive spectrum for everyone. Shura Read Quote
I think it’s much harder now with the Internet to hone anything. It’s easy to share things: you do one track, and it goes on Hype Machine; people are being exposed a lot earlier. Shura Read Quote
There are two ways of dealing with being odd. One is to really try and conform, and the other is to do the opposite and really make a thing out of it. At school, it wasn’t that I was bullied, but everyone was very aware that I was different. I was kind of the token weird person that people accepted into their group, almost like an accessory. Shura Read Quote
I made the decision that I could either go outside in the freezing cold in the wind and rain and get muddy or just stay inside and be a rock star. Shura Read Quote
