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When you're in a different place every day, there's this kind of madness that sets in.
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I liked Olivia Newton-John.
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I started dating JD Samson from Le Tigre, and suddenly I was listening to more up-tempo music and old dance music, like ESG and Gang of Four, and I thought, 'Wow. This is fun.'
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I think that the stuff I write for pop music is terribly, terribly cheesy.
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I try not to do too much self-analysis apart from when I'm actually paying $170 an hour for it. I try to keep it in the room.
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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.
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I like the Carpenters and Elvis.
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I'm impressionable, that's for sure.
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I hope I am a psychotherapist's dream. I've spent enough hours in therapy.
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I'm just a follower.
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I don't need to be rich anymore; I don't need to be a millionaire.
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I love TV, and I love movies, and I pull so much content from the drama in all of those mediums and put them into songs.
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Fame made me develop a panic disorder.
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If Amy Winehouse was a beehive, then I guess I'm a blonde bob.
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In my sobriety, I have discovered that the people I love, and who hurt me, were sick like me.
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I don't want to be critiqued about the way that I look on the Internet.
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I have big dreams. I want to keep songwriting. Direct films. Be a parent.
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I can't be bothered to learn Final Draft. I'm not a technical person. Like, when I sing, I just want to sing the melody and write the lyrics.
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Everybody in the entertainment industry is insecure.
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I think that, to some degree, being irreverent is the only reason I continue to be successful.
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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.
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I'm allowed to maintain some modicum of privacy. But also, I would like not to be picked apart or for people to observe when I put on 10 pounds or take off 10 pounds, or I have a hair extension out of place, or my fake tan is botched.
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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.
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I was really bored of making downtempo albums.