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Everybody in the entertainment industry is insecure.
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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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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 think that, to some degree, being irreverent is the only reason I continue to be successful.
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I was really bored of making downtempo albums.
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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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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 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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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 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 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.
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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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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.
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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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I have to be honest: I think production is mad - exciting - because, of course, you're creating the record. When you're a singer, you're just singing. Creating the music, directing, and seeing where it's gonna go in production is very, very exciting.
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When I'm in a songwriting phase, it's a phase. I don't just suddenly feel inspired and then write a song, because I always write with a co-writer.
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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 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.
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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 toured for 13 years, and it was very lonely, and it was hard work.
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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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I'm a musical geek. It's like there's this big, wild universe in my head, and I love to express it.
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I'm from Hackney, and it's an area that is not so pretty, and we have a different way of expressing ourselves than somebody from uptown that has lots of money.