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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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It takes me, like, half an hour to write the lyrics for a song. They just come out.
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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.
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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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One thing I always really enjoyed about Quincy Jones' production technique was that there were so many layers to every song. Like, one week you'd hear a new trumpet-line, then the next week you'd hear - be hearing a new guitar-line.
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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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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 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 get to sit at home with the dogs on the sofa, record in a closet in the office, send them off and, if I'm lucky, make a million dollars.
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I don't do sessions for myself ever. I'm always working, writing for pop sessions. And what happens is that sometimes I like a song so much, I keep it for myself.
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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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I've been writing pop songs for pop stars for a couple years and see what their lives are like, and that's just not something I want.
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I can clear my mind, and lyrics just come out; it's very easy for me.
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Sometimes, after I finish the lyrics and have all the melodies and harmonies and the pop and vocal, I'll be like, 'I have to keep it. I love it too much.'
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I think producing a record for other artists is almost like giving them advice, and I would say that it is easier to produce another artist than it is to produce yourself.
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I'm acting a lot when I'm writing for other people.
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I have eight siblings, and we formed a group called Mac 9. I was Mac 7.
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The truth is that you shouldn't match your insides to other people's outsides. Life is an inside job, and we just have to do our best.
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I really don't know anything about music. I don't really listen to it. I don't know anything about the history of music.
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I have social anxiety. It's easier up on stage because there's security in being there. When I'm off stage I'm trying not to be a manic freak. I'm quite shy.
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I don't listen to the albums that I make, and I don't listen to a lot of music as a whole.
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You've got to live and die by your decisions.
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Life is pretty surreal and awesome.
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My goal is to give girls and boys a different idea of expression. It's not always about looking pretty or cute. It's about expressing yourself however that may be, even if that's being silly or goofy or weird.