“When you have a lot of gay friends, you don't think of that as being d...” — Shura Quote

When you have a lot of gay friends, you don't think of that as being different or divisive or weird; that's just your reality.

I started playing when I was about 13, mainly because Dad had guitars lying around the house. My dad taught me my first three chords, and I taught myself from there.

I felt that pop music didn't represent me. And that's why I made my own.

Pop music for introverts is an idea I wanted to explore.

A lot of people start by learning other people's songs, but the idea of singing someone else's music didn't excite me. I just wanted to write my own. It was really bad to begin with. It's improved slightly since.

If one in four Dutch people saying they will vote for my party, it's ridiculous to say we're divisive or extreme.

We don't need more divisive language or programs and policies that are going to tear the fabric of the nation apart.

To be a little divisive is kind of hot.

As we've grown as a country, we've allowed our fears and our doubts and our questions about things that we don't know to become more divisive than uniting us as a country, as a people.

I could never vote for Trump. His divisive rhetoric is unacceptable and I just could never support him.