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- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
For some people, it's impossible to escape binaries.
- Expression
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love trying to match a really hard expectation.
- Queer
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- Nov 07, 2020
My whole life is queer.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm kind of resistant to being told no, not being wanted. It fills me with energy.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Chanting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been the one who is more enthusiastic about Christmas than my family. I regress to a child state, chanting carols.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Gender
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- Nov 07, 2020
The gender question has always obsessed me.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
Male rock stars are sexy because they desire you first. I want to be like that.
- Kid
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's part of what made me interested in theater as a kid. It made it acceptable to be a man for an hour onstage.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I invented Christine as a survival technique. I was inspired by the idea that everyone could have a Christine inside to wake.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter what you eventually become - free, empowered - the lingering feeling of 'once an outsider, always an outsider' is very vivid for me.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?'
- I Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love funny women.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm terrified of dying because of everything being too unfinished. I would be happy being a ghost.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's pretty much how I feel on stage, like I can let go of all kinds of baggage, or even disappear and change outfits. I want to remind people that they can grant themselves the license to do the same.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Typically, in France, someone in my position should keep their mouth shut. I'm an entertainer, operating in the realm of pop, and it's often looked down upon for a pop artist to take a stand, to have convictions or opinions. But I don't think the two are incompatible or mutually exclusive.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way I dress definitely helps me embody and actually change my way of behaving and feel more confident.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I used Christine, who is my stage character, as an excuse to finally be myself, as if I needed to say, 'Oh this character is going to be the woman I wanted to be.'
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always knew I wanted to be a woman in men's clothing because I just feel good like that. I feel like I'm taking a different space: I move differently; I'm more at ease.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are lots of ways to be a feminist. Beyonce, for example, is a beautiful example of feminine sensuality and is still really powerful. My character and my inner essence is more like an awkward 15-year-old boy, like a teenager backstage, like, 'Yeah, what's up?' That's what I'm trying to channel.
- Balcony
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to be Romeo, not Juliet. Romeo is a much cooler way to be - Juliet's just up in a balcony, waiting.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every masculine hero narrative I could find I wanted to steal for myself and twist to my size.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dancing, for me, is like a second language. It's the best way for me to get out of my shell and be expressive in a very personal way.
- Great Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christine and the Queens is born out of a particular moment in my life where I was quite low.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think 'Chris' is way more about that, about living desire as a force of chaos and about reveling in that chaos.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tapping into a more masculine, macho culture, I got in touch with my femininity, but differently. Macho culture is also pride of the body and showing it off - a relationship to theatricality, to construction. It's about owning your narrative again.
- Enjoy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy this confusion. Heloise? Christine? Chris? Maybe I will be called C at some point.
- Idea
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the idea of constantly altering yourself.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember studying so hard for so long and saying to my parents, 'I will be a teacher.' And they were looking at me like, 'Girl... you just want to be on stage. Stop pretending.' So when I chose to do music, they were relieved. My parents were more intelligent and lucid than I was.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I broke up with my first girlfriend because I was out of love. I was crushing so hard on her for a whole year, and I finally I got to be with her, and the interest vanished. I'm a terrible person. I was 17, and she was in my class.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I trust people who look like animals.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you dance, you own everything you have. You are really in your own body. You do it with your muscles and your bones and your weight and your height - it's how to love yourself by moving.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basically, when I like a song, I have to dance.
- Christine
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I thought of Christine at first, I was really angry with everything that was given to me as a young girl.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm going to redefine what it means to be sexy, and it's going to be creepy as hell. Because I could never do the 'sexy' way of being sexy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first album was a coming-of-age album - I don't like the phrase, but when you listen to it, you can tell I was having a hard time, that I wasn't socially relating to people.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've experienced being properly lost in my desires, and it's really influenced my writing.
- Expect
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lack of ambition in politics in terms of what we expect from the government, what it means to have a state.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm often lost in my dreams.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was young, I would write all the time. Novels, plays, and poems. It's like a disease - my life is filled with fantasies, and I have to write them all down.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christine was me wanting to break free. I was tired of being prissy and shrinking and apologising all of the time, so I created a character that could be daring for me.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, everything is a performance.
- Could
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish I could change bodies and destinies.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fashion is a way to transform yourself. By choosing your own silhouette and shape, you can constantly change who you are.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm kind of obsessed with Bruce Springsteen - the T-shirt and jeans look for me is appealing. Prince was great as well. He designed all of his outfits himself and looked exactly how he wanted to look. He was in complete control of his image.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not trying to brag, but if I did expose my life, it would be a good YouTube series.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one can escape politics. We are all in it. Even if we shy away from it, I just decide to embrace it. And I try to be an ally for other fights.
- Sword
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- Nov 07, 2020
My words are my sword.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The character I've created, Christine, is mainly the first attempt for me to escape all the secret injunctions we have as girls all the time. Like, be pretty but be polite. Don't take too much space. All those things that didn't mean anything to me. I just decided to turn them around with my character.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just drawn to hands.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gendered performance is just constant theater.
- Christine
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, from the beginning, I was healed and inspired by queer culture, and Christine and the Queens, as an idea from the beginning, is queer because it questions the norm.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love when I dive into lyrics that give me human complexity and intricate narrative.
- Happens
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a huge pop music lover. I do love the immediacy, the organic fever that happens when a pop track is so infectious.
- French People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people know Serge Gainsbourg's 'Histoire de Melody Nelson' album, but what's interesting is that in the early '90s, he actually went into a dark, weird phase that French people don't really like. They consider his music from that time weak. But for me, it's the best.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see theatre everywhere, actually. We're all kind of performing a version of ourselves every morning by choosing the clothes and how we appear - but the stage is so emphasising that I really feel comfortable in it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I invented 'Christine' as a survival technique to deal with many things. I felt it would save me.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started to write music, I desperately wanted to relate to people. But when I became famous, I could relate less. I thought, 'Oh, am I trapped in my own creation?' I was really lonely.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, in my adult life, I have memories of when I was young and really scared of being too close to people.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's the strong will of an artist that really inspires me.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a pop star. I don't feel like one. I'm always joking that I'm actually an eight-year-old boy dreaming about being a pop star.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have an obsession with haters: the great mess of the Internet expressing itself. I love to type my name on Twitter and read everything. It's always enlightening to see what they hate about you: I'm not pretty enough to be on stage, or my music doesn't make any sense. It feels good to read that, like I'm heading in the right direction!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love people that are question marks. I love people that don't have answers and are just trying to cope with it. I love people that just don't tick boxes. There is a grace in them I can't really find elsewhere.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time I think about a girl to motivate me, I think about Grimes. She's one of my heroes.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grimes is the extreme version of doing everything yourself. I think this is impressive, because she is fiddling with things I couldn't fiddle with, all the technical stuff. I know what I want to do, but I wouldn't do it all my own, I would go crazy. This is insanely hard, to do an album by yourself. But I admire her for that.
- Bored
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is contagious and everywhere and democratic, and that's what drew me in. I was interested in acting and being a director, but one of the things that bored me about theatre was that it was not accessible to everyone.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020