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My words are my sword.
I'm just drawn to hands.
I'm often lost in my dreams.
I don't remember my 20s as a good place.
The gender question has always obsessed me.
I wish I could change bodies and destinies.
I love the idea of constantly altering yourself.
Christine and the Queens is about not being safe.
I love trying to match a really hard expectation.
For some people, it's impossible to escape binaries.
When I read a book, it's Lou Reed's voice narrating it.
It's the strong will of an artist that really inspires me.
I know that a song is working when I can properly dance on it.
I love people who go on stage and blossom like a weird flower.
When I take risks, I win. When I do the safe thing, it's a disaster.
In theater, what I loved were wordless plays and working in silence.
I love Lou Reed because his voice sounds like your inner conscience.
Queer is about intense questioning that can't be made nice and glossy.
The core of all the music I love is a good bass line and a good rhythm.
I'm kind of an obsessive person, and touring is repetitive in the best way.
Male rock stars are sexy because they desire you first. I want to be like that.
Festivals are happy places, and you don't really want to enjoy them on your own.
I'm kind of resistant to being told no, not being wanted. It fills me with energy.
I love when I dive into lyrics that give me human complexity and intricate narrative.
I'm not trying to brag, but if I did expose my life, it would be a good YouTube series.
I enjoy this confusion. Heloise? Christine? Chris? Maybe I will be called C at some point.
I've experienced being properly lost in my desires, and it's really influenced my writing.
Every time I think about a girl to motivate me, I think about Grimes. She's one of my heroes.
Christine and the Queens is born out of a particular moment in my life where I was quite low.
Every masculine hero narrative I could find I wanted to steal for myself and twist to my size.
I invented 'Christine' as a survival technique to deal with many things. I felt it would save me.
I'm terrified of dying because of everything being too unfinished. I would be happy being a ghost.
The way I dress definitely helps me embody and actually change my way of behaving and feel more confident.
When I thought of Christine at first, I was really angry with everything that was given to me as a young girl.
Sometimes, in my adult life, I have memories of when I was young and really scared of being too close to people.
I think 'Chris' is way more about that, about living desire as a force of chaos and about reveling in that chaos.
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.
I always wanted to be Romeo, not Juliet. Romeo is a much cooler way to be - Juliet's just up in a balcony, waiting.
I'm a huge pop music lover. I do love the immediacy, the organic fever that happens when a pop track is so infectious.
Fashion is a way to transform yourself. By choosing your own silhouette and shape, you can constantly change who you are.
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.
I invented Christine as a survival technique. I was inspired by the idea that everyone could have a Christine inside to wake.
I've always been the one who is more enthusiastic about Christmas than my family. I regress to a child state, chanting carols.
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.
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.
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.
No matter what you eventually become - free, empowered - the lingering feeling of 'once an outsider, always an outsider' is very vivid for me.
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.
I love sensual women like Beyonce who are very empowering and sexy at the same time, but if it's not what you want to do then you have to say no.
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.