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I'm a bit of a cougar, to be honest.
All my closest friends are gay. All of them.
Possessions can be replaced - it's people that can't.
Lisa tried to eat me in the womb, that's the real tea.
I am very clean, not exactly a neat freak, and creative.
In Australia, our first album went four-times platinum. It was massive.
After you give up meat for about a week, you don't really crave it anymore.
We love pop and the U.K. specifically seems to embrace pop and it's so cool.
Women can be quite intimate emotionally - they're very emotionally available.
We don't have to test our boundaries anymore. We definitely know what they are.
I've wrongly been called sick by newspapers and magazines throughout my entire career.
The '90s is my favourite era of music, especially the girl-bands like Babes in Toyland.
We grew up with a different gauge on what pop is. Pop for us was INXS and John Farnham.
We're huge fans of Kylie Minogue, Grimes, and artists who are doing more electronic music.
I just lived openly, as loud as I wanted to be, which translated into our music really well.
There's some members of the older generation who have been conditioned with such closed minds.
Anyone that continues to spread hate or fear or judgment or phobias doesn't deserve a platform.
At the end of the day, we're all human beings, and people have their struggles and inner demons.
There's certain people in your life you realise aren't exactly the people that you thought they were.
We might depend on each other a bit too much and use that as a crutch, but it's not entirely a bad thing.
When you are signed to a major label, everyone wants to have a say in who you are and what you are doing.
Nobody should feel like they can force themselves into your life how it suits them when it's toxic and unwanted.
The thing that is most conducive of that better life for all is love, acceptance, understanding and being yourself.
Not many people know this but we come from a long line of chicken, pineapple and onion farmers at Ingham in Queensland.
We're very private people and we tend to write about our relationships but keep the actual details close to our chests.
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.
As songwriters, we can go in and write for other artists in a time where you aren't necessarily feeling inspired for yourself.
Back in your twenties you're discovering your boundaries in life, whether it's with relationships or friendships and partying.
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.
We get home to Brisbane every couple of months or weeks. But we have often flown home for just two days as we get so homesick.
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.
I have a vintage bohemian style of decor with a lot of candles, and second hand furniture and my crystals and my books and plants.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The fact that Australia is falling so far behind on something so simple as equal love and equal rights for equal love is disgusting, it's embarrassing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
That's the thing about being an artist, you don't have to take anyone else's perspective into account. You can act as self-indulgent in your emotions as you want.
We both have different inspirations, style-wise. Lisa really loves Penelope Cruz and that classic gypsy look, whereas I like trashy hot messes and '50s pin-up girls.
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.
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.
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.
We were going for an otherworldly feel, you know a lot of people tell us we look like aliens anyway. I don't know if it's just because there's two of us and we have big eyes and long necks.
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.