“I'll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don't have to be famous.”
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“I'll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don't have to be famous.”
“I guess I don't know if I'm comfortable with fame or touring or promo or any of that stuff, and I really discovered that I love working for people and co-writing and working under someone.”
“I have so much to thank reality TV for.”
“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 m...”
“There's this image of us on the red carpet, being really fancy, and then there's the reality.”
“So where a lot of people will spend three weeks on one song, I will write 10 in three weeks. Maybe the song that they sculpt is going to be as successful as just one of the 10 that I wrote.”
“In my sobriety, I have discovered that the people I love, and who hurt me, were sick like me.”
“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 really visually stimulated more than anything. I don't really listen to music. I'm more into watching telly or watching movies and visual art.”
“I'm a fan of the Strokes, so my big fantasy was that one day I would get to sing with them.”
“Life is pretty surreal and awesome.”
“It can be difficult navigating the line between tabloid gossip and authenticity.”
“I toured for 13 years, and it was very lonely, and it was hard work.”
“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 exper...”
“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.”
“'Chandelier' took, like, four minutes to write the chords, then, like, 12-15 minutes to write the lyrics. Probably 10 or 15 minutes to cut the vocals.”
“The weirder the better for me.”
“I don't care what people think of me, unless they think I'm mean or something, but I don't care if they think I'm like someone else because I know I'm not - I'm a total weirdo. I'm not selli...”