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.
The songs that work best are broad lyrically and have one strong concept in the metaphor.
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.
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.
Married life is awesome.
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 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.
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.
I don't need to be rich anymore; I don't need to be a millionaire.
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.
I really feel like I've nailed songwriting. It's my specialty; it's what I'm good at.
I was weirdly obsessed with music until I was 11, and then I turned into a nerd.
I liked Olivia Newton-John.
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.
I don't want to be followed by paparazzi; that terrifies me.
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.
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.
When I'm writing a pop song, I'll just write formulaically, strategically.
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.
A lot of the time, I don't actually relate to what I'm writing about in pop songs.
