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I'm a hundred percent a rock n' roll guy.
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I've got perfectionist issues, as I can't seem to let tracks out the studio - it drives my manager nuts.
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I appreciate my music is famous, but I'd rather my face wasn't so that I can just live a normal life.
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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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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 love the idea of how fast can we make the song, but I don't think that I'm necessarily, like, a super-talented songwriter. I think I'm just really productive. One out of 10 songs is a hit.
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That would really be my fantasy - maybe just do three shows a year and each year in a different city, just singing for the people who really want to see it, and then just write for other people. I do love to sing, but I'm just as happy singing in the bathtub, you know?
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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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I don't go to shows because I just want to listen to the music performed live. I want to get to know the person who's performing it. Or I want to, like, take away a sense that I had an experience that nobody else is going to have again, or a unique experience for that moment.
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I try as much I can after every live performance to read all the comments my fans post on Facebook and Twitter, as this helps enormously for me to understand straight from fans what worked and what didn't.
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Married life is awesome.
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I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy.
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My dad is an egomaniac.
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My main thing is I just want to share as much hope and happiness as possible for music. If I can share as many moments and help people believe in themselves... if I can do that, then I'll feel like my job is done.
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I have so much to thank reality TV for.
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People call me for the ballads. Apparently that's where I've been pigeonholed. But it's really interesting and really fun. It's my favourite part of the job, writing.
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When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.
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My fans are like, 'Lab does what he does,' which is really cool. If I came out with a Jack White rock tune tomorrow, people would be like, 'Yeah, cool man,' which is great.
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I'll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don't have to be famous.
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I'm all for trying anything once; otherwise, you end up like David Guetta - reproducing the same formula over and over.
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My dad and mom were in bands: the Soda Jerks, Fat Time, Girls at Play - which is a play on Men at Work.
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It's a lot easier producing for people or being in the background, and they can take all the fire from the front. But in order to express the ideas that I have without any kind of contamination, I thought it would be a cool thing to be out front.
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Branding your song is the worst thing you can ever do. That's turning your song into a product.
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A lot of people come up to me expecting to meet the person they have seen perform. It's not going to happen, unless my mania, my stage person, responds to them and not the real me.