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" 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. "

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" I thought I was going to be an actor. I liked entertaining. I was pretty much tap dancing for attention from a very early age. My family was kind of musical, and there were people in the circus next door and actors across the road. I just enjoyed messing around with music growing up, but I really thought I was going to be an actor. "

" I like the Carpenters and Elvis. "

" 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? "

" 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 don't go to shows because I just want to listen to the music performed live. I want to get to know the person who's performing it. Or I want to, like, take away a sense that I had an experience that nobody else is going to have again, or a unique experience for that moment. "

" People call me for the ballads. Apparently that's where I've been pigeonholed. But it's really interesting and really fun. It's my favourite part of the job, writing. "

" I'm never going to sing the words, 'I want to shut down the club,' never, ever. "

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

" 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 really don't know anything about music. "

" 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'm just completely obsessed with Die Antwoord. "

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

" 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 got a little bit famous. I didn't like it. "

" 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. "

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

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

" The weirder the better for me. "

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

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

" Married life is awesome. "

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

" I'm very easily influenced, and I'm also a quick study, so I think when I decided I wanted to write pop songs, I literally just listened to pop radio for six months to get a feel for it and understand it. "

" 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. "

" I have so much to thank reality TV for. "

" I think that it would be unwise of us not to believe that there is life outside of us, intelligent life. And so I do believe in aliens. "

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

" I try not to do too much self-analysis apart from when I'm actually paying $170 an hour for it. I try to keep it in the room. "

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