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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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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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Like when I'm singing live I can't hear myself. I'm just listening to the rest of the band. To listen to my voice, it doesn't even feel like it's me.
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When I was 21, I went to London and lived there for eight years.
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English urban artists were very used to making secondhand American music, and I thought that was boring.
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I can clear my mind, and lyrics just come out; it's very easy for me.
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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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Branding your song is the worst thing you can ever do. That's turning your song into a product.
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I want to be a little bit brave. I want to feel scared sometimes. That's what's going to change the music business, if we have that kind of attitude.
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I'm acting a lot when I'm writing for other people.
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You've got to live and die by your decisions.
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I'm fine around other people's feelings. It doesn't make me nervous or anxious.
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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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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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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'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 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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Life is pretty surreal and awesome.
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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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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 have eight siblings, and we formed a group called Mac 9. I was Mac 7.
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When you make a record, I always imagine people dancing to it. If the chef thinks it tastes good, then there will be someone who ultimately believes the same thing.
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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.