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" The weirder the better for me. "

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" 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. "

" Everybody in the entertainment industry is insecure. "

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

" I'm sort of a gay man trapped in a woman's body when it comes to music sometimes - it's crowded in here! "

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

" 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. "

" I used to be addicted to 'Reader's Digest' growing up. I would read the stories about love, and I guess that's where I became a hopeless romantic. I draw from that a lot. "

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

" 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. "

" I don't need to sing in front of thousands, as I can sing in the shower. "

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

" I liked Olivia Newton-John. "

" I get to sit at home with the dogs on the sofa, record in a closet in the office, send them off and, if I'm lucky, make a million dollars. "

" I really felt like 'Chandelier' was a big pop song. But we weren't sure what would happen if I wasn't willing to show my face and do promo and go on tour and do the traditional kind of pop strategy. So I had no expectations. "

" I really don't know anything about music. I don't really listen to it. I don't know anything about the history of music. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" It can be difficult navigating the line between tabloid gossip and authenticity. "

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

" I was pretty much tap dancing for attention from a very early age. "

" 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. "

" As a person, I'm a good person who shows up for my friends. I do my best to be good. As an artist, I have no idea. "

" I hope I am a psychotherapist's dream. I've spent enough hours in therapy. "

" I don't read reviews or interviews or anything, just because I'm afraid; If I believed the good, then I'd believe the bad, and there will be bad. "

" It takes me, like, half an hour to write the lyrics for a song. They just come out. "