Michelle Chamuel quotes:

When you're a kid and you go to Disneyland or Disneyworld and you're so pumped and then you go when you're grown up and it's not as much fun as you remember it.

I had serious performance stage fright. I kept my singing to the confines of my shower and car, while doing the dishes, and in my basement, but I would burst out crying if anyone asked me to sing.

I think I would prefer to partner with someone once I've established what I actually am trying to do as a solo artist with my actual name.

Most pop albums I was looking at as examples to point out production elements had a song that made you want to dance. I've been listening to electronic music forever and I just wanted to have something dancey.

You can't just mess with somebody's prescription, and I really like wearing glasses. It's my eyesight and I don't want to mess with that.

Everyone who wears glasses (onstage) eventually takes them off. It becomes part of the evolution. It was actually kind of a battle for me to keep my glasses.

I don't think of myself as "a lesbian musician." It's not one and alone. I think of myself as a musician.

If I wanted to make a record to represent myself, I wouldn't put any (covers on it).

I'm inspired by almost every artist I come across.

No matter where you are - whether you just won the lottery, or met the person of your dreams, or you're on stage and people are being supportive - whatever it is, you're still you. And whatever work you've done to be comfortable with yourself, you know, you're not really going to advance beyond that point unless you put in that work. There's no magic fix.

Pop music is music that's made more accessible to people. And there's a certain lifestyle and everything that goes with it normally.

The way I work with music is that I take on the story.

You're always you, with your own insecurities.