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

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" I'll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don't have to be famous. "

" '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. "

" 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. "

" People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff. "

" I just wanted to have a private life. "

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

" 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 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 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. "

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

" 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 was really bored of making downtempo albums. "

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

" 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 TV, and I love movies, and I pull so much content from the drama in all of those mediums and put them into songs. "

" 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. "

" Probably from, like, 10 to 14 or 15, I would just listen to pop radio. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I love the writing and performing, but everything in between sucks. "

" I'm not selling a dream; I'm not selling fame like it is some sort of fantastic thing. "

" A lot of people come up to me expecting to meet the person they have seen perform. It's not going to happen, unless my mania, my stage person, responds to them and not the real me. "

" I was too embarrassed to tell anyone I wanted to make a movie because I thought it would be seen as a vanity project because I was a singer. "

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

" The weirder the better for me. "

" 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? "

" I have big dreams. I want to keep songwriting. Direct films. Be a parent. "

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

" That's the thing about awards - it's for the people who do all the hard work behind the scenes. An award is just a clap at them. "