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

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

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

" The songs that work best are broad lyrically and have one strong concept in the metaphor. "

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

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

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

" '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'm impressionable, that's for sure. "

" 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 critiqued about the way that I look on the Internet. "

" 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. "

" When you're entertaining all day long and that's your work, you end up really very tired. You don't have a lot of energy left over for your loved ones. "

" I'm trying to have some control over my image. "

" Melody is pure intuition. I don't use any thinking brain when I do that. That's totally in the zone. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I just want to be a good storyteller. "

" 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 care what people think of me, unless they think I'm mean or something, but I don't care if they think I'm like someone else because I know I'm not - I'm a total weirdo. I'm not selling a dream; I'm not selling fame like it is some sort of fantastic thing. I'm just trying to sell music and get on with my real life. "

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" My dad and mom were in bands: the Soda Jerks, Fat Time, Girls at Play - which is a play on Men at Work. "