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In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.
I'm not trying to create an image or a persona. I'm just singing because that's what I know how to do.
I suppose my approach to religion is like my approach to music - I take what I want and leave the rest.
I think that plain old intellectualism [can be] a more powerful force than the idea of the femme fatale.
Feeling like you're respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.
I was a different sort of child, as half the children are. I was in that category of being free-spirited.
It's amazing what happens when you put your interests out into the universe and make it known what you want.
And I really have done everything that I said I did do. The rest is just a story that somebody else made up.
I don't really care about how good a song is, I only want them to reflect what I felt when I was writing them
Don't make me sad, don't make me cry. Sometimes love is not enough and the road gets tough, I don't know why.
I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.
I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things.
Einstein said 'your imagination is more important than intelligence,' and I have a very, very big imagination.
I'm more interested in, you know, SpaceX and Tesla, what's going to happen with our intergalactic possibilities.
I'm not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.
We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.
Bad things happen everyday but you're not going to be any happier thinking about them. So I don't think about them.
I just look for someone who makes me feel like life is an exciting opportunity and, you know, just like to be alive.
I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies.
What other people think of me is none of my business. Sometimes, it hurts my feelings, but I have to just keep going.
My songs are cinematic so they seem to reference a glamorous era or fetishize certain lifestyles, but that's not my aim.
Body Electric... It is the first song from my new short film called # Tropico that is coming out in the end of the month.
Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.
I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.
When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying.
Every time I close my eyes, it's like a dark paradise. No one compares to you, but there's no you, except in my dreams tonight
Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful? Will you still love me when I've got nothing but my aching soul?
When you long you can not achieve anything when you repeatedly have to lose all that you had hoped, you gradually become still.
I am usually always singing about the same god damn person so I will love him forever but you know, it's all good. It's all good!
I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
It's more about, when I found someone that made me feel really happy, that was so different to the way I'd felt before in my life.
I love to sing and I really love to write, but in terms of being onstage, I'm not that comfortable, which I think is sort of clear.
I don't even do anything in real life. I just sit in my studio and write, I call my friends, I watch television. I don't do anything.
When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in.
I have a great appreciation for our world's history. I learn from my own mistakes, I learn from the mistakes we've made as a human race.
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. You know what makes you stronger? When people treat you & your art with dignity.
I'm feelin' electric tonight Cruising down the coast goin' 'bout 99 Got my bad baby by my heavenly side I know if I go, I'll die happy tonight
I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.
As soon as the first person wrote about me, the articles became just blatant, all-out lies. I consider it slander. If I cared more, I'd kill them.
I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time.
I got my red dress on tonight Dancing in the dark in the pale moonlight Done my hair up real big beauty queen style High heels off, I'm feeling alive
Find someone who has a life that you want and figure out how they got it. Read books, pick your role models wisely. Find out what they did and do it.
I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don't have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.
To be honest like when you work at something for a long time and then coming to a family of people who support what you do hmm... you are very lucky!
I'm a writer first and a singer second. And then I started editing my own videos when I was 17, so it's a process I've been doing since I was younger.
I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.
With some of the bad things that come with love, there's also a lot of good. For example that connection... which I struggle to have with most people.
Being an entrepreneur doesn't make you a rich tycoon and being an innovator doesn't mean that you're successful. It just means that you're interesting.
[About being a teenager] Like, at first it's fine and you think you have a dark side - it's exciting - and then you realise the dark side wins every time.