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" 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. "

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" I believe that once I put music out, it's owned by the listener. "

" I was weirdly obsessed with music until I was 11, and then I turned into a nerd. "

" I'm fine around other people's feelings. It doesn't make me nervous or anxious. "

" Life is pretty surreal and awesome. "

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

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

" 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. "

" When I was 21, I went to London and lived there for eight years. "

" I think I managed to trick people a little bit into thinking I'm more arty by making creative, artistic, visual work and applying it to commercial music. Maybe. I don't know. "

" When I was 10, my parents really valued success in the arts, and I thought if I was a famous 'something artistic,' that they would love me more. "

" I appreciate my music is famous, but I'd rather my face wasn't so that I can just live a normal life. "

" 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. "

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

" My dad is an egomaniac. "

" I refrain from blaming anything on my parents. "

" I love the idea of how fast can we make the song, but I don't think that I'm necessarily, like, a super-talented songwriter. I think I'm just really productive. One out of 10 songs is a hit. "

" I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted. "

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

" I used to be addicted to 'Reader's Digest' growing up. I would read the stories about love, and I guess that's where I became a hopeless romantic. I draw from that a lot. "

" When I write promotionally, I guess I give away the ones I'm less connected to. "

" I do not love performing. I get really scared. "

" I'm a fan of the Strokes, so my big fantasy was that one day I would get to sing with them. "

" 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 don't want to have to do production, which is very technical. I don't enjoy that. "

" I liked Olivia Newton-John. "

" 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.' "

" The accolades don't nourish me - being with loved ones and my dogs does. "