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" 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. "

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" I really felt like 'Chandelier' was a big pop song. But we weren't sure what would happen if I wasn't willing to show my face and do promo and go on tour and do the traditional kind of pop strategy. So I had no expectations. "

" Everybody in the entertainment industry is insecure. "

" 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. "

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

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

" This is a sick business. It's so sad. "

" 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. "

" The melody will tell me what the song should be about, the tone of the song. That's when the intellect comes in. Because I have a list of possible titles and concepts, and I expand on that. "

" There's this image of us on the red carpet, being really fancy, and then there's the reality. "

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

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

" I love visual gags and gimmicks; I love them. "

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

" My dad is an egomaniac. "

" 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'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. "

" What I do enjoy is the creative process. "

" Married life is awesome. "

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

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

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

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

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

" I don't listen to the albums that I make, and I don't listen to a lot of music as a whole. "

" I think that, to some degree, being irreverent is the only reason I continue to be successful. "

" I really feel like I've nailed songwriting. It's my specialty; it's what I'm good at. "