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" Usually, the song will tell me who it belongs to. It seems clear to me who would do a good job with it, who it suits. "

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" I just wanted to have a private life. "

" Fame made me develop a panic disorder. "

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

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" I appreciate my music is famous, but I'd rather my face wasn't so that I can just live a normal life. "

" 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 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 know anything about the history of music. "

" 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. "

" I don't really leave the house. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Everybody in the entertainment industry is insecure. "

" I was a slightly overweight, spiky-fringed, rat's-tailed '80s girl who was just showing up. That's all I've ever really done to get here, just kept showing up. Even when I didn't want to. That's what I do. "

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" I like the Carpenters and Elvis. "

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

" 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.' "

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

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" I'm fine around other people's feelings. It doesn't make me nervous or anxious. "

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" 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'm just trying to work out a way to be a singer and to create cool content. I'm willing to do that as an entertainer. But I'm not willing to give up my actual self. "

" 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. "

" 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? "