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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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I toured for 13 years, and it was very lonely, and it was hard work.
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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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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 have big dreams. I want to keep songwriting. Direct films. Be a parent.
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Of course, success takes you where your character can't sustain you.
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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 don't want to be critiqued about the way that I look on the Internet.
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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 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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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 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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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'm a perfectionist, and to actually finish something is good for me.
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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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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 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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Urban is not actually my world. It was me trying something out, basically. I come from a gospel background.
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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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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 don't want to have to do production, which is very technical. I don't enjoy that.
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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 younger, I'd be in the studio three days straight to get something right, and my manager would be like, 'Go home!' Even now, I still sleep in the studio sometimes, but I can't do it quite as often. I've got gigs; I can't have my hobo beard! But if you love what you're doing, you can't stop. It's obsessive.
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I was really bored of making downtempo albums.