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.
I got a little bit famous. I didn't like it.
I'm fine around other people's feelings. It doesn't make me nervous or anxious.
I think it's impossible not to see something you wanted happen to someone else and maybe wish it for yourself.
My dad and mom were in bands: the Soda Jerks, Fat Time, Girls at Play - which is a play on Men at Work.
I think that the stuff I write for pop music is terribly, terribly cheesy.
When I was outed by Perez Hilton as bisexual, I suddenly started being asked personal questions, which was really difficult.
Fame is the worst thing that can happen to a person. I choose not to appear in anything publicly. Twitter's it!
In my sobriety, I have discovered that the people I love, and who hurt me, were sick like me.
When I'm writing a pop song, I'll just write formulaically, strategically.
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.
When I was 21, I went to London and lived there for eight years.
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.
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.
I'm impressionable, that's for sure.
'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.
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.
I'm a fan of the Strokes, so my big fantasy was that one day I would get to sing with them.
I'm never going to sing the words, 'I want to shut down the club,' never, ever.
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.
