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" '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. "

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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. "

" I toured for 13 years, and it was very lonely, and it was hard work. "

" We all need to stand together and be a part of creating the future we hope to see. "

" I think that the stuff I write for pop music is terribly, terribly cheesy. "

" Usually, the song will tell me who it belongs to. It seems clear to me who would do a good job with it, who it suits. "

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

" That would really be my fantasy - maybe just do three shows a year and each year in a different city, just singing for the people who really want to see it, and then just write for other people. I do love to sing, but I'm just as happy singing in the bathtub, you know? "

" The hour and a half I'm on stage is my favourite part of the day when I'm on tour because the only part I really love is the interaction with the audience. "

" I just want to be a good storyteller. "

" Knowing now what goes into making a successful artist, it's disheartening. "

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

" 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 really don't know anything about music. I don't really listen to it. I don't know anything about the history of music. "

" Life is pretty surreal and awesome. "

" I get to sit at home with the dogs on the sofa, record in a closet in the office, send them off and, if I'm lucky, make a million dollars. "

" I think it's impossible not to see something you wanted happen to someone else and maybe wish it for yourself. "

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

" I was pretty much tap dancing for attention from a very early age. "

" I don't need to be rich anymore; I don't need to be a millionaire. "

" 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.' "

" I don't really leave the house. "

" I'm never going to sing the words, 'I want to shut down the club,' never, ever. "

" Just, whenever you can, get up and sing at a gig or jam. If you have a chance, take it and keep on getting up. Keep going - but not If people boo, 'cause that's just mean. I think that could be setting yourself for disappointment. "

" I thought I was going to be an actor. I liked entertaining. I was pretty much tap dancing for attention from a very early age. My family was kind of musical, and there were people in the circus next door and actors across the road. I just enjoyed messing around with music growing up, but I really thought I was going to be an actor. "

" 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. "

" If a transporter could send me from the bed with the dogs watching crappy TV to the stage five minutes before I go on, then immediately back to bed, I would love it. "

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

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

" I don't know anything about the history of music. "

" 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. "