You choke my throatWith words of wonderYou make it hard to breatheYour love’s so coldJust like an arrowPierced through my skin I bleed
My one thing is respect. I don’t care about anything else. You should respect everyone around you – the people who work for you, peers. Be classy.
When you’re growing up, I think there’s this idea that the coolest people are the ones who are really rude and feverish. But I’ve come to realize that isn’t cool.
There’s something about girls together, uniting, that I just thought was cool.
I think it’s cool to be a rock star I don’t think there are many. There aren’t many who speak out and take risks. And I think that’s important.
I think the best people are the ones who are just as nice and fun. This is really cheesy, but you only have one life – why spend most of it pretending to be cool?
I was never the cool kid in school, and loads of people told me that I was weird, that I dressed uncool and did uncool things, that I was too nice, too happy.
I’ve always wanted to write pop music. I never wanted to be cool or make a hipster record.
I never set out to be a cult cool artist. I always made music that I thought was pop.
I used to worry about being cool. Now I realize that I genuinely don’t care.
Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong year – I think it would have been cool to be alive in the ’60s.
I’ve passed up on many a thing that could have made me a big artist or something. Like, I was offered a feature on a Christina Aguilera song and I turned it down. It just wasn’t right. She’s cool, but it just wasn’t right.
If there’s intelligence behind an opinion, then I’m all for expressing it, but I would never just start a fight with someone for the sake of it – that’s just not me.
The scenes in ‘The Virgin Suicides’ where Elle Fanning is ice skating are really amazing.
I love that ‘…Baby One More Time’ video, to be honest; it’s amazing.
When I was younger, I was a rave kid trapped inside a singer/songwriter’s body. But I kind of figured my way out because I started making these really terrible beats on this Yamaha keyboard that my parents got me for my 10th birthday.
I always see my songs in colors, and I’m often more inspired by movies and photographs than I am by other songs when I write my music. I’m also inspired by fashion, and I want my music to be a visual painting of what’s in my mind.
My dad always used to encourage me to dress weird.