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I have big dreams. I want to keep songwriting. Direct films. Be a parent.
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I toured for 13 years, and it was very lonely, and it was hard work.
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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'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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I don't want to be critiqued about the way that I look on the Internet.
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Of course, success takes you where your character can't sustain you.
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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.
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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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My mother brought up nine children, in Hackney, and none of us are criminals, none of us in jail. Her strength made me who I am today.
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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'm a perfectionist, and to actually finish something is good for me.
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I don't want to be someone that, when people look back, they think, 'Yeah, cool, he made us jump around for a bit in 2010.'
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Urban is not actually my world. It was me trying something out, basically. I come from a gospel background.
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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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That's why 'Chandelier' was interesting to me... I wrote the song because there's so many party-girl anthems in pop. And I thought it'd be interesting to do a different take on that.
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When I was outed by Perez Hilton as bisexual, I suddenly started being asked personal questions, which was really difficult.
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I was really bored of making downtempo albums.
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I grew up not really having a father figure, and it didn't bother me, because he wasn't there in the first place. But then he started other families, and I was jealous. It was like he was happy without our family.
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I don't want to have to do production, which is very technical. I don't enjoy that.
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I got into music through just being inspired by my brother and sisters. They all sing, play instruments and write - and they're very good at it.
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You can make what you want. People care about what the artist has to say, what the sound is, and how it affects them.
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You get so close to your own music that you can't see the beauty in it. I had to learn to let go. It's good to be less precious.
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I don't think about the success that I've had - I've had a lot of success with music - but I always look at it like it's a new day.
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I definitely didn't wanna be a one-dimensional artist that you can just put into one box. Because, to me, we're all masters of certain energies, and we all create different colours.