There's some *NSYNC and Backstreet Boys on my iPod. I listen to it if it comes up on shuffle.
Something like film, I guess there are so many elements to it, like the dialogue and what makes sense culturally.
As cheesy as it sounds, I feel like I do write a lot, not necessarily for a message to be taken away. I feel like it is a little bit egotistical to be like, "I hope they are a better person after listening to my song. "
I love making music. I feel like people often get into that 'you should only make music for yourself' kind of place, where they say things like, "I don't write for other people, I write for myself," and I feel like that misses the mark so much because music, especially pop music, is so much more than yourself.
I feel like so many people get into that place where creating for someone else is selling out and it is so not about that. It is a stupid, kind of pretentious way of thinking.
I feel like it is only music where people are like, "You can't do this for other people, you have to do it for yourself. " Which I hate.
You don't make a film and then be like I am only going to play it in my house and no-one is going to see it - that is ridiculous.
When I was 17, I was so shy I could barely speak or introduce myself to anyone.
I've been campaigning for 17 of the last 24 months. I'm ready to legislate and not campaign.
My friend Kathy is the only person who'll be halfway honest with me. 'Did you ever see a cowboy film, where someone has been caught by the Indians and tied between two wild stallions, each pulling in opposite directions?' she asked. I nodded mutely. 'That's a bit what giving birth is like.
Feeding plants to animals then eating the animals is like filtering water through a sewer then drinking it.