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I remember my brother came home with a bass and played a blues solo on it. I just went insane for days afterwards learning that.
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I'm trying to have some control over my image.
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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 need to make money, but I don't want to be another guy selling his McDonald's to the pop market.
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When I listen to a Coldplay record, you're gonna hear an indie band, and you know that's what you're gonna get from Coldplay. With myself, I'm not sure it's the same.
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My ethos is musical freedom: to create whatever I want.
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My brothers came home with country, jazz, everything... it was always very normal to me to make any type of music. It was possible to fuse all the sounds, so it never sounded confusing to me to mix jazz and dubstep.
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As a breed, I think artists are never 100% satisfied with their work, and we will always want that little bit of extra time to put the final gloss on it.
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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 don't see categories; I don't see styles - l see them all gelled together. And it was gospel that definitely helped me to do 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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Everyone in my family has been in music - my cousins, my grandmother, my grandfather - so it's quite a big family tree.
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When I write promotionally, I guess I give away the ones I'm less connected to.
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You can't go up to girls and start talking about minor 7ths and expect to pull. It's not going to work.
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I used to be addicted to 'Reader's Digest' growing up. I would read the stories about love, and I guess that's where I became a hopeless romantic. I draw from that a lot.
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The accolades don't nourish me - being with loved ones and my dogs does.
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Different cultures produce a different 'cool.' And your perception of 'cool' changes depending on where you are.
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I actually tried to learn the dictionary at one point. It didn't work; I only got through the first few pages.
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If a transporter could send me from the bed with the dogs watching crappy TV to the stage five minutes before I go on, then immediately back to bed, I would love it.
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'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.
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I think, as an artist, I wear a lot of different hats, and people have to join all of the dots.
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I'm an advocate of 'it's not what you are, it's who you are.'
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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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The hour and a half I'm on stage is my favourite part of the day when I'm on tour because the only part I really love is the interaction with the audience.