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" The truth is that you shouldn't match your insides to other people's outsides. Life is an inside job, and we just have to do our best. "

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" 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 really listen to music. I don't. I watch television. "

" 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 have never made money selling records. I have never really made money touring, either, or with merchandise, surprisingly. But I do make money by just having my songs in the background of television shows or in commercials or movie trailers. That's been really good. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" When I'm in a songwriting phase, it's a phase. I don't just suddenly feel inspired and then write a song, because I always write with a co-writer. "

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

" 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 refrain from blaming anything on my parents. "

" Everybody in the entertainment industry is insecure. "

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

" I was really bored of making downtempo albums. "

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

" What I do enjoy is the creative process. "

" I love watching reality TV, but being part of making it was just demoralizing. "

" 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. "

" About 50 percent of the songs on the radio are like, 'Live like tomorrow doesn't exist. Like it's my birthday. Like it's the last day of my life'... Such a large percentage of pop music is really about party time. "

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

" The weirder the better for me. "

" 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 have so much to thank reality TV for. "

" I had hundreds of thousands of dollars of tax penalties. "

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