Troye Sivan
I'm on the path to being someone I'm equally terrified by and obsessed with. My true self.
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.
I want to have kids and a hot husband.
I wanted to write a song about war and that classic 'We want you' recruitment style from the point of view of the recruiter.
The most radical thing that I can do is share how happy I am.
I love retouching images on Photoshop.
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.
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.
People think I must have pushy parents, but that's not the case.
I've definitely always had a passion for entertaining.
I feel like I have just been really, really lucky to meet some of the most successful and great actors alive today.
I think that the beauty of 'Spud' is that everyone can connect to the character of Spud in so many ways. It's about real experiences that happen to kids all the time.
When I was born, I always knew something was a little bit different about me.
I share every aspect of my life with the Internet. Whether or not that's a good thing, I don't know.
I think pop music is in such an exciting place right now, and I do kind of credit that to Lorde with 'Royals.' I think that song changed everything in the pop scene. All of the sudden, alternative pop music became pop music.
I have a majority girl audience on YouTube.
I feel like part of getting better at writing is knowing where to find that inspiration. Right after something happens to me, the first thing I'll do is go write when those feelings are really, really fresh.
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.
I'm lucky enough to exist in 2018, where I have a record label that's like, 'Write whatever you want to write.' I don't have to hide anything.
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.
In front of a big group of people, in front of cameras, to be in my body and be in that moment, I feel the way that I've always wanted to feel - like a real pop star who is not holding anything back.
Before coming out, I remember distinctly feeling like there was a delay on my life.
All my friends were doing just dumb stuff that kids do, like making out with people at parties and starting to date... I didn't know any gay people growing up or any queer people growing up, and so I just really felt alone and kind of lost, and I just wasn't experiencing life.
I don't know what I would have done had I not found the Internet. I found a community of people who I really liked and who I felt got me.
I always felt different in a lot of ways and didn't really know how to express that.
Before I came out, the thought of someone calling me gay, even when I knew very well that I was, was petrifying.
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 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.
I know who I am, and I know what my ambitions are. If one kid sees me on TV or sees me in a movie and relates, then I'm done. That's perfectly fine. That's enough for me.
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.
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.
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.
The things that excite me are staying home and cooking.
I'm so ludicrously lucky, it would be disgusting if I didn't acknowledge it.
I feel like I'm the most creative when I'm bored.
To me, writing is a personal thing; I write super-personal, autobiographically.
It's really empowering when, as an artist, you can visualize something and then have the final product turn out the way you wanted it to.
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.
Let yourself be the person you've secretly always wanted to beCollection: Wanted
There are people in the world who 1,000% will love you just the way you are. So no matter what, keep that in mind.Collection: Love You
You're all beautiful. And you shouldn't let anyone tell you otherwise.Collection: Beautiful
I call it viewing from afar, they call it stalking.Collection: Afar
I'm the type of person who listens to like sad music when I'm sad to feel sadder, and to feel sorry for myself.Collection: Sorry
The thing that I really want to try and do is just live my life really openly and honestly. I think there's so much power in that, as simple as it is.Collection: Simple
If I want to be remembered as anything in this life it's just 'nice'.I feel like being nice to others is the coolest thing anyone can be.Collection: Nice
Sharing is caring, but I don't care.Collection: Caring
I love you as much as I love Nutella.Collection: Love You
I realize that I'm kind of a different person than I thought I was.Collection: Different
I was definitely scared of fashion growing up just because I didn't want people to think I was gay. But now that I'm out, I feel like it's such a personal journey for me that I'm going on every single day where I feel more and more confident and comfortable to wear the clothes that I want to wear, and to have the interest that I have, and to paint my nails if I want to.Collection: Fashion
I think I have to be aware of how much power words can have. And it makes me consider everything that I say before I say it, because you can really help a lot of people, or you can really, really mess things up.Collection: Thinking