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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.
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This is a sick business. It's so sad.
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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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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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Just, whenever you can, get up and sing at a gig or jam. If you have a chance, take it and keep on getting up. Keep going - but not If people boo, 'cause that's just mean. I think that could be setting yourself for disappointment.
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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 don't care about commercial success. I get to do what I love and communicate whatever I want.
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It can be difficult navigating the line between tabloid gossip and authenticity.
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I do not love performing. I get really scared.
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I got a little bit famous. I didn't like it.
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I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.
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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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When I was 21, I went to London and lived there for eight years.
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I don't want to be famous or recognizable. I don't want to be critiqued about the way that I look on the Internet... 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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There's this image of us on the red carpet, being really fancy, and then there's the reality.
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I'm just completely obsessed with Die Antwoord.
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I really felt like 'Chandelier' was a big pop song. But we weren't sure what would happen if I wasn't willing to show my face and do promo and go on tour and do the traditional kind of pop strategy. So I had no expectations.
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I'm not selling a dream; I'm not selling fame like it is some sort of fantastic thing.
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My grandad's a gospel singer, and his children were singers, too. But I don't believe in God in the same way... not religion; it breaks us up too much. The same with musical styles - it breaks people up. I believe they are all one thing - why not put them together?
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The first tour an artist does is a strange one... because you can never tell how the audience is going to react.
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I love to dance. I have always been the first on the dance floor, but I'm not teachable. I couldn't learn 'five, six, seven, eight' if my life depended on it.
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I don't care what people think of me, unless they think I'm mean or something, but I don't care if they think I'm like someone else because I know I'm not - I'm a total weirdo. I'm not selling a dream; I'm not selling fame like it is some sort of fantastic thing. I'm just trying to sell music and get on with my real life.
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When you're entertaining all day long and that's your work, you end up really very tired. You don't have a lot of energy left over for your loved ones.
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'One Million Bullets' is my baby.