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

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" When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity. "

" The 'victim to victory' theory is that, if you listen to the radio, a large percentage of the hits are... about victim to victory, like, 'I'm having a terrible time.' And then the pre-chorus is, 'I don't know what's gonna happen next.' And the chorus is, 'Now I'm brilliant, and everything is great, because something happened to make it great.' "

" Like when I'm singing live I can't hear myself. I'm just listening to the rest of the band. To listen to my voice, it doesn't even feel like it's me. "

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

" I can clear my mind, and lyrics just come out; it's very easy for me. "

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

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

" I just want to be a good storyteller. "

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

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

" I'm just completely obsessed with Die Antwoord. "

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

" I get to do what I love and communicate whatever 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't care about commercial success. I get to do what I love and communicate whatever I want. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Life is pretty surreal and awesome. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 don't want to be followed by paparazzi; that terrifies me. "

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

" '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. "

" I was really bored of making downtempo albums. "