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 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.
I have so much to thank reality TV for.
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.
There's this image of us on the red carpet, being really fancy, and then there's the reality.
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.
In my sobriety, I have discovered that the people I love, and who hurt me, were sick like me.
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'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.
I'm a fan of the Strokes, so my big fantasy was that one day I would get to sing with them.
Life is pretty surreal and awesome.
It can be difficult navigating the line between tabloid gossip and authenticity.
I toured for 13 years, and it was very lonely, and it was hard work.
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.
I think it would be very difficult to maintain one kind of art or whatever for your whole life. I think it's unrealistic.
I was pretty much tap dancing for attention from a very early age.
'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.
The weirder the better for me.
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.