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" I don't really identify as gay; I don't really know what I am. "

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" What I do enjoy is the creative process. "

" I had hundreds of thousands of dollars of tax penalties. "

" I have social anxiety. It's easier up on stage because there's security in being there. When I'm off stage I'm trying not to be a manic freak. I'm quite shy. "

" I have never made money selling records. I have never really made money touring, either, or with merchandise, surprisingly. But I do make money by just having my songs in the background of television shows or in commercials or movie trailers. That's been really good. "

" 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'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. "

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

" 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. "

" If anyone besides famous people knew what it was like to be a famous person, they would never want to be famous. "

" I'm really visually stimulated more than anything. I don't really listen to music. I'm more into watching telly or watching movies and visual art. "

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

" 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. "

" There are probably five songs in the world that I get excited about when I hear them on the radio. "

" I like the Carpenters and Elvis. "

" When you're in a different place every day, there's this kind of madness that sets in. "

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

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

" I don't really leave the house. "

" I'm allowed to maintain some modicum of privacy. But also, I would like not to be picked apart or for people to observe when I put on 10 pounds or take off 10 pounds, or I have a hair extension out of place, or my fake tan is botched. "

" In my sobriety, I have discovered that the people I love, and who hurt me, were sick like me. "

" Fame made me develop a panic disorder. "

" I liked Olivia Newton-John. "

" The truth is that you shouldn't match your insides to other people's outsides. Life is an inside job, and we just have to do our best. "

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

" 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 hope I am a psychotherapist's dream. I've spent enough hours in therapy. "

" Married life is awesome. "

" 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. "