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" About 50 percent of the songs on the radio are like, 'Live like tomorrow doesn't exist. Like it's my birthday. Like it's the last day of my life'... Such a large percentage of pop music is really about party time. "
Birthday
Life
Music
" All I really want to do is things I haven't done. 'I'm gonna put a paper bag on my head and be on the cover of 'Billboard,' see what I can get away with - if they'll let me.' And they let me. And I am literally giggling inside for, like, a month that I got away with it. "
Bag
Done
I Am
" A lot of people come up to me expecting to meet the person they have seen perform. It's not going to happen, unless my mania, my stage person, responds to them and not the real me. "
Me
Real
Person
" A lot of the time, I don't actually relate to what I'm writing about in pop songs. "
About
Writing
Time
" As a person, I'm a good person who shows up for my friends. I do my best to be good. As an artist, I have no idea. "
Friends
Good
Good Person
" 'Chandelier' took, like, four minutes to write the chords, then, like, 12-15 minutes to write the lyrics. Probably 10 or 15 minutes to cut the vocals. "
Lyrics
Four
Like
" Everybody in the entertainment industry is insecure. "
Everybody
Entertainment
Industry
" Fame is the worst thing that can happen to a person. I choose not to appear in anything publicly. Twitter's it! "
Worst
Choose
Fame
" Fame made me develop a panic disorder. "
Fame
Panic
Me
" I appreciate my music is famous, but I'd rather my face wasn't so that I can just live a normal life. "
Music
Face
Live
" I believe that once I put music out, it's owned by the listener. "
I Believe
Out
Believe
" I can clear my mind, and lyrics just come out; it's very easy for me. "
Clear
Easy
I Can
" I can't be bothered to learn Final Draft. I'm not a technical person. Like, when I sing, I just want to sing the melody and write the lyrics. "
Person
Write
Draft
" I'd had a relationship with a woman when I was 20, but nobody cared then. As it came out at the same time as my fame, I started to have panic attacks. "
Relationship
Woman
Fame
" I do not love performing. I get really scared. "
Performing
Really
Scared
" I don't care about commercial success. I get to do what I love and communicate whatever I want. "
Whatever
Love
Get
" I don't care what people think of me, unless they think I'm mean or something, but I don't care if they think I'm like someone else because I know I'm not - I'm a total weirdo. I'm not selling a dream; I'm not selling fame like it is some sort of fantastic thing. I'm just trying to sell music and get on with my real life. "
Me
Music
People
" I don't do sessions for myself ever. I'm always working, writing for pop sessions. And what happens is that sometimes I like a song so much, I keep it for myself. "
Myself
Writing
Song
" I don't go to shows because I just want to listen to the music performed live. I want to get to know the person who's performing it. Or I want to, like, take away a sense that I had an experience that nobody else is going to have again, or a unique experience for that moment. "
Live
Music
Unique
" I don't know anything about the history of music. "
Know
History
About
" I don't listen to the albums that I make, and I don't listen to a lot of music as a whole. "
Make
Listen
Music
" I don't need security detail; I don't need anything special. I just walk around, and I can do that, and that's a real luxury when you're in my industry. "
You
Security
Walk
" I don't need to be rich anymore; I don't need to be a millionaire. "
Anymore
Rich
Millionaire
" I don't need to sing in front of thousands, as I can sing in the shower. "
Front
Need
Sing
" I don't read reviews or interviews or anything, just because I'm afraid; If I believed the good, then I'd believe the bad, and there will be bad. "
Believe
Afraid
Bad
" I don't really even go out that much now, except to walk my dogs, because I don't want to be recognised. I used to be a really friendly person, and now I just want to be invisible. I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy. "
Energy
Myself
Famous
" I don't really identify as gay; I don't really know what I am. "
Identify
Really
Know
" I don't really leave the house. "
Leave
Really
House
" I don't really listen to music. I don't. I watch television. "
Television
Watch
Listen
" I don't want to be critiqued about the way that I look on the Internet. "
About
Internet
Look
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