Christine and the Queens

I remember growing up and feeling all the time not pretty enough, too rude, too loud, taking too much space because precisely I wanted to maybe be bossy and loud and unapologetic and not really smooth all the time, and those were not really qualities that were valued for me. ”

Because I'm experimenting so much with gender-bending and listening to everything that happens to me in terms of genderless energies, I have a hard time finding partners that can match me. ”

The gender question has always obsessed me. ”

For me, the male gaze is oppressive. And I hope if we are building a female gaze that it's inclusive, and it's about pure desire and not how I want people to look in order for them to be desired by me. ”

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

Gendered performance is just constant theater. ”

For me, everything is a performance. ”

Festivals are happy places, and you don't really want to enjoy them on your own. ”

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

The success of the first album was almost an anomaly, and it could remain a fantastic anomaly. It was not crafted for commercial success. I remember meetings with my label saying it had no radio singles. For me, the second album was a gesture of independence. ”