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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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Being There
Easier
Freak
Manic
Security
Shy
Stage
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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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Dance
Dance Floor
Eight
Five
Seven
Six
Life Love Always
Life Love My Life
Depended
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If a transporter could send me from the bed with the dogs watching crappy TV to the stage five minutes before I go on, then immediately back to bed, I would love it.
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Bed
Five
Minutes
Stage
Tv
Love Me Back
Crappy
Dogs
Immediately
Send
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I'm just trying to work out a way to be a singer and to create cool content. I'm willing to do that as an entertainer. But I'm not willing to give up my actual self.
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Self
Willing
Work Out
Actual
Entertainer
Content
Singer
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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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Ballads
Favourite
Where Me People
Apparently
Me Fun People
Pigeonholed
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I used to be addicted to 'Reader's Digest' growing up. I would read the stories about love, and I guess that's where I became a hopeless romantic. I draw from that a lot.
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Growing Up
Hopeless
Hopeless Romantic
Stories
Became
Read
Digest
Draw
Guess
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I think I managed to trick people a little bit into thinking I'm more arty by making creative, artistic, visual work and applying it to commercial music. Maybe. I don't know.
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Artistic
Creative
Little Bit
Visual
Applying
Work Music Thinking
Commercial
Trick
Maybe
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I started dating JD Samson from Le Tigre, and suddenly I was listening to more up-tempo music and old dance music, like ESG and Gang of Four, and I thought, 'Wow. This is fun.'
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Dance
Music
Dating
Dance Music
Four
Fun
Gang
Listening
Wow
Started
Old
Suddenly
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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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Expecting
Mania
Me People Person
Me People Real
Perform
Responds
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That's why 'Chandelier' was interesting to me... I wrote the song because there's so many party-girl anthems in pop. And I thought it'd be interesting to do a different take on that.
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Interesting
Song
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I guess I don't know if I'm comfortable with fame or touring or promo or any of that stuff, and I really discovered that I love working for people and co-writing and working under someone.
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Touring
Promo
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So where a lot of people will spend three weeks on one song, I will write 10 in three weeks. Maybe the song that they sculpt is going to be as successful as just one of the 10 that I wrote.
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Just One
Sculpt
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The melody will tell me what the song should be about, the tone of the song. That's when the intellect comes in. Because I have a list of possible titles and concepts, and I expand on that.
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Concepts
Intellect
Melody
Titles
Tone
Expand
List
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I love the idea of how fast can we make the song, but I don't think that I'm necessarily, like, a super-talented songwriter. I think I'm just really productive. One out of 10 songs is a hit.
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Hit
Fast
Necessarily
Songwriter
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I'm very easily influenced, and I'm also a quick study, so I think when I decided I wanted to write pop songs, I literally just listened to pop radio for six months to get a feel for it and understand it.
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Decided
Months
Radio
Six
Study
Easily
Influenced
Listened
Pop Songs
Quick
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I was a slightly overweight, spiky-fringed, rat's-tailed '80s girl who was just showing up. That's all I've ever really done to get here, just kept showing up. Even when I didn't want to. That's what I do.
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Overweight
Showing Up
Showing
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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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Cute
Girl
Being Silly
Different
Goofy
Silly
Weird
Looking
Boy
Pretty
Idea
Expressing
However
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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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Birthday
Music
Party
Percent
Pop Music
Radio
Tomorrow
Life Time Music
Exist
Large
Large Percentage
My Life
Percentage
Pop
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I have a family I love. They tend to say, 'Great job!' Or 'You work really hard! Good for you!' Or 'You look nice today!' Or 'Don't be ridiculous, order the fries!' Or 'You are hilarious.' That's all the family I need.
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Hilarious
Fries
Great Job
Nice
Order
Love Family Work
Love Work Family
Tend
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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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Pop Song
Song
Strategy
Willing
Happen
Promo
Tour
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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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Chance
Disappointment
Jam
Setting
Boo
Cause
Getting
Gig
Sing
Whenever
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I'm allowed to maintain some modicum of privacy. But also, I would like not to be picked apart or for people to observe when I put on 10 pounds or take off 10 pounds, or I have a hair extension out of place, or my fake tan is botched.
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Fake
Pounds
Privacy
Tan
Allowed
Apart
Extension
Maintain
Modicum
Observe
Picked
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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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Famous
Couple
Internet
Pop Stars
Stars
Writing
Songs
Pop
Pop Songs
Recognizable
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I have never made money selling records. I have never really made money touring, either, or with merchandise, surprisingly. But I do make money by just having my songs in the background of television shows or in commercials or movie trailers. That's been really good.
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Movie
Merchandise
Records
Selling
Shows
Television
Television Shows
Touring
Trailers
Background
Songs
Good Money Never
Commercials
Either
Surprisingly
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That would really be my fantasy - maybe just do three shows a year and each year in a different city, just singing for the people who really want to see it, and then just write for other people. I do love to sing, but I'm just as happy singing in the bathtub, you know?
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Fantasy
Singing
Three
Love City People
Bathtub
City
Each Year
For The People
Maybe
Sing
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I don't really even go out that much now, except to walk my dogs, because I don't want to be recognised. I used to be a really friendly person, and now I just want to be invisible. I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy.
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Famous
Energy
Friendly
Invisible
Liked
Dogs
Except
Walk
Recognised
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All I really want to do is things I haven't done. 'I'm gonna put a paper bag on my head and be on the cover of 'Billboard,' see what I can get away with - if they'll let me.' And they let me. And I am literally giggling inside for, like, a month that I got away with it.
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Paper
Inside
Done I Am Me
Month
Bag
Billboard
Done Me I Am
Cover
Head
Literally
Paper Bag
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I don't go to shows because I just want to listen to the music performed live. I want to get to know the person who's performing it. Or I want to, like, take away a sense that I had an experience that nobody else is going to have again, or a unique experience for that moment.
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Performing
Unique
Again
Nobody
Moment
Nobody Else
Performed
Unique Experience
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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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Dream
Music
Care
Don't Care
Fame
Mean
Real
Real Life
Trying
Weirdo
Life Me People
Life Music Me
Thing
Total
Else
Sell
Some
Unless
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I thought I was going to be an actor. I liked entertaining. I was pretty much tap dancing for attention from a very early age. My family was kind of musical, and there were people in the circus next door and actors across the road. I just enjoyed messing around with music growing up, but I really thought I was going to be an actor.
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Family
Music
Age
Attention
Circus
Dancing
Enjoyed
Entertaining
Growing Up
Musical
Next
Family Music People
Age Music People
Across
Actor
Pretty
Around
Tap
Liked
Door
Early
Early Age
Messing
Next Door
Road
Very Early Age
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The 'victim to victory' theory is that, if you listen to the radio, a large percentage of the hits are... about victim to victory, like, 'I'm having a terrible time.' And then the pre-chorus is, 'I don't know what's gonna happen next.' And the chorus is, 'Now I'm brilliant, and everything is great, because something happened to make it great.'
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Brilliant
Chorus
Next
Radio
Terrible
Theory
Victim
Victory
Now
Gonna
Happen
Having
Hits
Large
Large Percentage
Percentage
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