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" A lot of the time, I don't actually relate to what I'm writing about in pop songs. "

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" My goal is to give girls and boys a different idea of expression. It's not always about looking pretty or cute. It's about expressing yourself however that may be, even if that's being silly or goofy or weird. "

" I started dating JD Samson from Le Tigre, and suddenly I was listening to more up-tempo music and old dance music, like ESG and Gang of Four, and I thought, 'Wow. This is fun.' "

" So where a lot of people will spend three weeks on one song, I will write 10 in three weeks. Maybe the song that they sculpt is going to be as successful as just one of the 10 that I wrote. "

" That's why 'Chandelier' was interesting to me... I wrote the song because there's so many party-girl anthems in pop. And I thought it'd be interesting to do a different take on that. "

" Married life is awesome. "

" I liked Olivia Newton-John. "

" I don't want to be followed by paparazzi; that terrifies me. "

" When I'm writing a pop song, I'll just write formulaically, strategically. "

" I love hip hop, and I have a bunch of urban songs I write for fun that I can't put on my albums because people would laugh and point. "

" I guess I don't know if I'm comfortable with fame or touring or promo or any of that stuff, and I really discovered that I love working for people and co-writing and working under someone. "

" I'm just completely obsessed with Die Antwoord. "

" I've been writing pop songs for pop stars for a couple years and see what their lives are like, and that's just not something I want. "

" If Amy Winehouse was a beehive, then I guess I'm a blonde bob. "

" I'm an advocate of 'it's not what you are, it's who you are.' "

" I think it would be very difficult to maintain one kind of art or whatever for your whole life. I think it's unrealistic. "

" I don't want to be critiqued about the way that I look on the Internet. "

" Sometimes, after I finish the lyrics and have all the melodies and harmonies and the pop and vocal, I'll be like, 'I have to keep it. I love it too much.' "

" I think that it would be unwise of us not to believe that there is life outside of us, intelligent life. And so I do believe in aliens. "

" I try not to do too much self-analysis apart from when I'm actually paying $170 an hour for it. I try to keep it in the room. "

" What I do enjoy is the creative process. "

" I'm very easily influenced, and I'm also a quick study, so I think when I decided I wanted to write pop songs, I literally just listened to pop radio for six months to get a feel for it and understand it. "

" You never know what I'm gonna do. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I got a little bit famous. I didn't like it. "

" It can be difficult navigating the line between tabloid gossip and authenticity. "

" I love to dance. I have always been the first on the dance floor, but I'm not teachable. I couldn't learn 'five, six, seven, eight' if my life depended on it. "

" I love watching reality TV, but being part of making it was just demoralizing. "

" I really don't know anything about music. "