I don't really even go out that much now except to walk my dogs, because I don't want to be recognis...
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I don't really even go out that much now except to walk my dogs, because I don't want to be recognised.
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When you're entertaining all day long and that's your work, you end up really very tired. You don't ...
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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.
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I'm a fan of the Strokes, so my big fantasy was that one day I would get to sing with them.
I'm a fan of the Strokes, so my big fantasy was that one day I would get to sing with them.
I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy.
I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy.
Knowing now what goes into making a successful artist, it's disheartening.
Knowing now what goes into making a successful artist, it's disheartening.
I love visual gags and gimmicks; I love them.
I love visual gags and gimmicks; I love them.
Like when I'm singing live I can't hear myself. I'm just listening to the rest of the band. To liste...
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Like when I'm singing live I can't hear myself. I'm just listening to the rest of the band. To listen to my voice, it doesn't even feel like it's me.
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I don't go to shows because I just want to listen to the music performed live. I want to get to know...
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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.
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I'll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don't have to be fa...
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I'll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don't have to be famous.
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I love watching reality TV, but being part of making it was just demoralising.
I love watching reality TV, but being part of making it was just demoralising.
Fame made me develop a panic disorder.
Fame made me develop a panic disorder.
I'm an advocate of 'it's not what you are, it's who you are.'
I'm an advocate of 'it's not what you are, it's who you are.'
People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, ther...
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People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff.
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I don't need to be rich anymore; I don't need to be a millionaire.
I don't need to be rich anymore; I don't need to be a millionaire.
I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.
I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.
I have social anxiety. It's easier up on stage because there's security in being there. When I'm off...
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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.
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When I was 10, my parents really valued success in the arts, and I thought if I was a famous 'someth...
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When I was 10, my parents really valued success in the arts, and I thought if I was a famous 'something artistic,' that they would love me more.
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I don't know anything about the history of music.
I don't know anything about the history of music.
I think it would be very difficult to maintain one kind of art or whatever for your whole life. I th...
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I think it would be very difficult to maintain one kind of art or whatever for your whole life. I think it's unrealistic.
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I'm really visually stimulated more than anything. I don't really listen to music. I'm more into wat...
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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.
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I don't read reviews or interviews or anything, just because I'm afraid; If I believed the good, the...
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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.
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People call me for the ballads. Apparently that's where I've been pigeonholed. But it's really inter...
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People call me for the ballads. Apparently that's where I've been pigeonholed. But it's really interesting and really fun. It's my favourite part of the job, writing.
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There are probably five songs in the world that I get excited about when I hear them on the radio.
There are probably five songs in the world that I get excited about when I hear them on the radio.
I was weirdly obsessed with music until I was 11, and then I turned into a nerd.
I was weirdly obsessed with music until I was 11, and then I turned into a nerd.
I hope I am a psychotherapist's dream. I've spent enough hours in therapy.
I hope I am a psychotherapist's dream. I've spent enough hours in therapy.
I'm just completely obsessed with Die Antwoord.
I'm just completely obsessed with Die Antwoord.
I'm sort of a gay man trapped in a woman's body when it comes to music sometimes - it's crowded in h...
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I'm sort of a gay man trapped in a woman's body when it comes to music sometimes - it's crowded in here!
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A lot of people come up to me expecting to meet the person they have seen perform. It's not going to...
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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.
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