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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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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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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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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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About 50 percent of the songs on the radio are like, 'Live like tomorrow doesn't exist. Like it's my birthday. Like it's the last day of my life'... Such a large percentage of pop music is really about party time.
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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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Life is pretty surreal and awesome.
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I have eight siblings, and we formed a group called Mac 9. I was Mac 7.
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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 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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Those that know me know that I'm not 100% in love with commercial pop music. It's not my preferred genre - I don't do squeaky clean pop.
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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'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 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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You've got to live and die by your decisions.
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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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We all need to stand together and be a part of creating the future we hope to see.
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I don't need to sing in front of thousands, as I can sing in the shower.
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It can be difficult navigating the line between tabloid gossip and authenticity.
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I'm really visually stimulated more than anything. I don't really listen to music. I'm more into watching telly or watching movies and visual art.
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I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.
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I'm not selling a dream; I'm not selling fame like it is some sort of fantastic thing.