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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 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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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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When I was outed by Perez Hilton as bisexual, I suddenly started being asked personal questions, which was really difficult.
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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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My ethos is musical freedom: to create whatever I want.
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When I write promotionally, I guess I give away the ones I'm less connected to.
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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'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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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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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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I toured for 13 years, and it was very lonely, and it was hard work.
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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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'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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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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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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I've made so many changes to my records because of the way the audience has reacted at the various festivals I've played - I've taken tracks back into the studio, stripped them bare, and built them back up again to create something entirely different.
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I'm an advocate of 'it's not what you are, it's who you are.'
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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.
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The accolades don't nourish me - being with loved ones and my dogs does.