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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" What I do enjoy is the creative process. "

" Married life is awesome. "

" 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'm just a follower. "

" My dad and mom were in bands: the Soda Jerks, Fat Time, Girls at Play - which is a play on Men at Work. "

" 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. "

" I was weirdly obsessed with music until I was 11, and then I turned into a nerd. "

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

" 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 love the writing and performing, but everything in between sucks. "

" I don't really leave the house. "

" I like to sing, and I like to make records - and that part is fun. "

" I don't listen to the albums that I make, and I don't listen to a lot of music as a whole. "

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

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

" Fame is the worst thing that can happen to a person. I choose not to appear in anything publicly. Twitter's it! "

" When I was 10, my parents really valued success in the arts, and I thought if I was a famous 'something artistic,' that they would love me more. "

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

" All I really want to do is things I haven't done. 'I'm gonna put a paper bag on my head and be on the cover of 'Billboard,' see what I can get away with - if they'll let me.' And they let me. And I am literally giggling inside for, like, a month that I got away with it. "

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

" I'm impressionable, that's for sure. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "