Quotes from Troye Sivan

I spent so long and so much of my childhood holding myself back for fear of what people would think. I'm trying my best every day to throw that away.

There are so many people I would love to meet and say thank you for posting their videos, because hearing their stories and everything comforted me.

I love retouching images on Photoshop.

I love, love, love songwriting. It's like the most therapeutic thing in the world.

When I was younger, out in public, I never wanted to pop my hip and definitely made sure that my wrist was nice and firm. All these silly, prohibitive things.

I watched pretty much every coming out video on YouTube that has ever been posted; I watched it in between 14 and a half and 15. Those coming out videos, and those people on YouTube, those brave, brave, brave people on YouTube, without them, I don't know where I'd be.

Ever since I was a little kid, I got bored, so I learned to sing, and I started singing lessons. And then anytime I was bored, I would start writing and start messing around on my computer, making beats. Then I got bored and started making YouTube videos; that changed my life in a big way.

I'm on the path to being someone I'm equally terrified by and obsessed with. My true self.

You make my heart shake bend and break

No literally the only thing that's stopping us from getting married is the fact that we haven't 'met yet

Right after something happens to me, the first thing I'll do is go write when those feelings are really, really fresh. I'll hum a tune into my phone sometimes.

The things that excite me are staying home and cooking.

I'm most proud of my work in the LGBTQ space. Feels like, above all else, that's something I want to do for the rest of my life.

The thing I'm proudest of is probably like any sort of work I've done in the LGBTQ space.

Whatever success I have found has been a collaborative effort of people helping out and opening their minds and being accepting and celebrating who I am.

I super strongly identify with marginalized communities. I'm not at all religious, but I feel super, super Jewish. I can't even describe the feeling, but it actually feels really similar to being gay, the kind of kinship that you feel with the LGBTQ people. That same sense of community is there with Judaism.

Someone actually asked me once if I used coming out as a publicity stunt. It's cool that we live in a time when being gay could be seen as helping your career.

I wanted to write a song about war and that classic 'We want you' recruitment style from the point of view of the recruiter.

A lot of being a good voice is knowing when I have a place to speak and when it's appropriate. And to speak from the heart when I do.

I write really visually. In my head, I'm constantly picturing things as I'm writing, so for me, videos are such an expressive part of my job.

I've definitely always had a passion for entertaining.

My main goal is to try to make fun for everyone. And to see my fans responding to it and to see them having fun is really rewarding.