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" When I was 21, I went to London and lived there for eight years. "

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" I love to dance. I have always been the first on the dance floor, but I'm not teachable. I couldn't learn 'five, six, seven, eight' if my life depended on it. "

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

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

" We all need to stand together and be a part of creating the future we hope to see. "

" Married life is awesome. "

" Knowing now what goes into making a successful artist, it's disheartening. "

" 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 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. "

" When I write promotionally, I guess I give away the ones I'm less connected to. "

" Sometimes, after I finish the lyrics and have all the melodies and harmonies and the pop and vocal, I'll be like, 'I have to keep it. I love it too much.' "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm acting a lot when I'm writing for other people. "

" I think I managed to trick people a little bit into thinking I'm more arty by making creative, artistic, visual work and applying it to commercial music. Maybe. I don't know. "

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

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

" 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. "

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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. "