Jessica Origliasso
Even when I was dating a man I always said I'd never get married until marriage equality was passed in Australia. It wouldn't feel right.Collection: Equality
I spoke to a UFO researcher about an experience that I had. It was very strange and trust me, you don't want to hear about it.Collection: Trust
Our food pyramid, the kind of diet that is constantly promoted, is completely warped. It's not based around anything to do with healing your body.
At the end of the day, we're all human beings, and people have their struggles and inner demons.
Back in your twenties you're discovering your boundaries in life, whether it's with relationships or friendships and partying.
The thing that is most conducive of that better life for all is love, acceptance, understanding and being yourself.
I always felt empowered by and proud of the people that I love, the people that I'm attracted to.
Since we get so much love and support from the queer community around the world, we really wanted to connect with U.S. audiences too and put on amazing shows wherever we can!
I just lived openly, as loud as I wanted to be, which translated into our music really well.
I was embraced entirely and completely by the LGBTQ community. So I always felt very comfortable and confident to live exactly how I wanted to.
Nobody should feel like they can force themselves into your life how it suits them when it's toxic and unwanted.
As songwriters, we can go in and write for other artists in a time where you aren't necessarily feeling inspired for yourself.
Lis and I didn't talk for a year. I was in a relationship that wasn't good for me. I became isolated. I had nobody anymore, I only had my relationship.
I'm a bit of a cougar, to be honest.
Women can be quite intimate emotionally - they're very emotionally available.
Lisa tried to eat me in the womb, that's the real tea.
We grew up with a different gauge on what pop is. Pop for us was INXS and John Farnham.
Just look at the transformation Taylor Swift made from being pop country to pop pop. There are very specific things she cut out and very specific things she adopted.
Our first record as the Veronicas was a big mainstream success. Maybe if we'd had the indie record first, then the breakout record, it would have been supported by Triple J.
The '90s is my favourite era of music, especially the girl-bands like Babes in Toyland.
All my closest friends are gay. All of them.
You shouldn't feel you have to label yourself for someone else to understand you. You should be able to feel what you want to feel and that's okay.
I'm very, very lucky - when I realised I was sexually attracted to females there wasn't a struggle where I found that hard to accept.
In Australia, our first album went four-times platinum. It was massive.
Electro '80s is very popular in Australia. Like, you get a headache if you walk into a mall with the number of girls and boys that are wearing big hair, leggings, headbands. You feel like you're back in the '80s.
Possessions can be replaced - it's people that can't.
We might depend on each other a bit too much and use that as a crutch, but it's not entirely a bad thing.
I think Spotify really does help. If you're going with the evolution of music these days, it's only becoming more and more popular and I don't think it's something to be shunned.
There's certain people in your life you realise aren't exactly the people that you thought they were.
We are comfortable in our bodies, we know how healthy we are.
We're huge fans of Kylie Minogue, Grimes, and artists who are doing more electronic music.
When you're faced with challenges in any industry, but especially the music industry, it tests you in a lot of ways, both personally and professionally.
My personal favorite person we worked with in the U.K. is Cathy Dennis, who is absolutely incredible. She wrote 'Can't Get You Out of My Head' for Kylie Minogue and 'Toxic' for Britney Spears, so she's one of my absolute favorite pop writers.
Lolita' was written at a time when we were heavily listening to more dance, electronic, and trance, and then on the flip side we were writing country-pop songs like 'Born Bob Dylan' or our acoustic songs, or trip-hop.
It's hard for new artists to keep hold of what they own.
Girls around the age of 14 to 18 are deciding who they are and exploring relationships, they're ready to take charge of their life. Boys aren't as confident at that age. They want music that deals with their emotions for them.
We're very private people and we tend to write about our relationships but keep the actual details close to our chests.
If you have everything you want in life, including money, fame and being asked out on dates by 20 cute boys, and you are still unhappy then you have to go deep within yourself to fix the issue.
After you give up meat for about a week, you don't really crave it anymore.
I've wrongly been called sick by newspapers and magazines throughout my entire career.
There's certain types of music where the artist sells the song - where it doesn't really matter what's going on with the song.
As a fan of music, there's nothing I hate more than hearing an artist write a new album off the back of a successful record. Usually they've rushed it, or they've gone into the studio with all the big guns to replicate what they'd just created.
We're complicated women.
Not many people know this but we come from a long line of chicken, pineapple and onion farmers at Ingham in Queensland.
Australia is a smaller country and the industry works differently over there. You get added to one radio station in Australia, and you pretty much get added across the board.
Having to deal with people all of a sudden knowing who we were and knowing our music and all the rest of it was definitely something that we had to get used to.
I'm still always surprised when someone recognizes me.
When you are signed to a major label, everyone wants to have a say in who you are and what you are doing.
You know what, we can be really fierce with each other but as soon as someone tries to take either one of us on, that's not one of us, we back each other up.
I just love Fortitude Valley, I love all of it. It is such a progressive hub, it feels like the East Village of New York.