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We all need to stand together and be a part of creating the future we hope to see.
A lot of the time, I don't actually relate to what I'm writing about in pop songs.
I don't want to have to do production, which is very technical. I don't enjoy that.
It takes me, like, half an hour to write the lyrics for a song. They just come out.
I really feel like I've nailed songwriting. It's my specialty; it's what I'm good at.
I'm not selling a dream; I'm not selling fame like it is some sort of fantastic thing.
When you're in a different place every day, there's this kind of madness that sets in.
I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy.
The songs that work best are broad lyrically and have one strong concept in the metaphor.
I'm a fan of the Strokes, so my big fantasy was that one day I would get to sing with them.
In my sobriety, I have discovered that the people I love, and who hurt me, were sick like me.
There's this image of us on the red carpet, being really fancy, and then there's the reality.
I think that, to some degree, being irreverent is the only reason I continue to be successful.
I don't care about commercial success. I get to do what I love and communicate whatever I want.
There are probably five songs in the world that I get excited about when I hear them on the radio.
Melody is pure intuition. I don't use any thinking brain when I do that. That's totally in the zone.
I appreciate my music is famous, but I'd rather my face wasn't so that I can just live a normal life.
My dad and mom were in bands: the Soda Jerks, Fat Time, Girls at Play - which is a play on Men at Work.
I'm sort of a gay man trapped in a woman's body when it comes to music sometimes - it's crowded in here!
I'll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don't have to be famous.
I think it's impossible not to see something you wanted happen to someone else and maybe wish it for yourself.
Fame is the worst thing that can happen to a person. I choose not to appear in anything publicly. Twitter's it!
If anyone besides famous people knew what it was like to be a famous person, they would never want to be famous.
As a person, I'm a good person who shows up for my friends. I do my best to be good. As an artist, I have no idea.
People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff.
Usually, the song will tell me who it belongs to. It seems clear to me who would do a good job with it, who it suits.
I love TV, and I love movies, and I pull so much content from the drama in all of those mediums and put them into songs.
I think it would be very difficult to maintain one kind of art or whatever for your whole life. I think it's unrealistic.
When I was outed by Perez Hilton as bisexual, I suddenly started being asked personal questions, which was really difficult.
I try not to do too much self-analysis apart from when I'm actually paying $170 an hour for it. I try to keep it in the room.
That's the thing about awards - it's for the people who do all the hard work behind the scenes. An award is just a clap at them.
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.
I love hip hop, and I have a bunch of urban songs I write for fun that I can't put on my albums because people would laugh and point.
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.
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.
I think that it would be unwise of us not to believe that there is life outside of us, intelligent life. And so I do believe in aliens.
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.
I was too embarrassed to tell anyone I wanted to make a movie because I thought it would be seen as a vanity project because I was a singer.
I can't be bothered to learn Final Draft. I'm not a technical person. Like, when I sing, I just want to sing the melody and write the lyrics.
When I was 10, my parents really valued success in the arts, and I thought if I was a famous 'something artistic,' that they would love me more.
I don't read reviews or interviews or anything, just because I'm afraid; If I believed the good, then I'd believe the bad, and there will be bad.
When I'm in a songwriting phase, it's a phase. I don't just suddenly feel inspired and then write a song, because I always write with a co-writer.
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.
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.
I'd had a relationship with a woman when I was 20, but nobody cared then. As it came out at the same time as my fame, I started to have panic attacks.
'Chandelier' took, like, four minutes to write the chords, then, like, 12-15 minutes to write the lyrics. Probably 10 or 15 minutes to cut the vocals.
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.
I don't need security detail; I don't need anything special. I just walk around, and I can do that, and that's a real luxury when you're in my industry.
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.'
The hour and a half I'm on stage is my favourite part of the day when I'm on tour because the only part I really love is the interaction with the audience.