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Bonnie McKee Quotes

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I feel like a lot of pop singers hurt themselves if they don’t have the proper training.
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After struggling for so long in the industry and writing so many failed songs and hearing ‘no’ for so long – I’m so grateful every time I hear a song that I was a part of on the radio.
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I think the key to writing hit songs is simplicity.
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I have been doing some writing on the side a little bit with artists that I’m really excited about. Kind of more up and coming people. But, I’m focusing more on my own project. It’s a full time job being an artist!
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I love shoes. I am a shoe fanatic. I love my Giuseppe Zanottis – he is my favorite. I have them in every color. Other than shoes, it’s important to have a great black leather jacket.
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I realized there are so many steps from getting a deal to having a hit.
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The original title was ‘Waking Up Diagonal’. It’s the first line of the song. I just thought it was more interesting than ‘I Don’t Care‘, which is such a boring title to me. When I hear that song, it breaks my heart a little bit because it’s my story.
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There’s a lot of little ‘Bonnie-isms’ in ‘Teenage Dream‘ that I was hoping to keep for myself.
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I like to think of myself as the people’s pop star a little bit. I respect Lady Gaga so much, and I love what she does, but she has this kind of mysterious, out-of-reach thing. I’m just not that – as much as I’d love to have that sort of mystique, I think I’m kind of an open book.
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I was writing songs as a kid about leprechauns and Catwoman and teapots – whatever it is that little girls wanna sing about. The first song I wrote was called ‘Kitten.’
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When I think about ‘Since U Been Gone,’ I think the first thing that comes to mind is ‘Livin’ On A Prayer‘ – they’re kind of like sisters, a little bit. And ‘Call Me Maybe‘ was so wildly original, and so quirky, and so satisfying.
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There are some artists that don’t like working with other females, which is fine. They have their own thing. I personally love being surrounded by other females.
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‘Teenage Dream’ was the hardest breakup for me.
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One thing I’d tell an up-and-coming singer is to never rely on other people for anything. The more self-sufficient you can be, the better off you’ll be.
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I always had the fantasy of Hollywood and Los Angeles and the beach, not realizing that Hollywood was so very far from the beach.
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When I get an artistic itch, I have to scratch it.
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When I moved to Seattle in fourth grade, I joined the Seattle Girls’ Choir. It’s a world-class choir, and we competed, toured Europe, and went and sang at the Vatican, so it was a really awesome experience to have that young.
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I like big, soaring melodies and fun, splashy lyrics. Maybe like what Blondie would do in 2013.
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I started writing my own songs from the time I was a little kid. I would write my own lyrics to other people’s songs that I heard on the radio and take whatever song and make it about fairies and angels – whatever little girls sing about.
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‘I throw my hand up in the air sometimes‘ is when you don’t get your way – when you give up, and you’re handing it over.
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I wish I wrote ‘Don’t Speak’ by No Doubt. I mean, that is a classic heartbreak song; it gets me every time.
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I had never really co-written. I thought it was weak or something if I needed to collaborate.
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I’ve always had a teenage thread running through my music.
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I have a notebook of concepts. There are titles everywhere if you are looking for them. I pull from them. There is a secret list that I keep for myself about what I want to sing about, and those are the ones I know I am not going to give up for someone else.
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In my mind, I imagined L.A. to be skyscrapers on the beach. Of course, that’s not what it actually looks like. And growing up watchingBeverly Hills 90210′ and ‘Melrose Place,’ I always had an obsession with L.A. and California in general.
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Try to say something familiar in a unique way so that it’s sing-alongable, even if you don’t speak English.
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When I’m dealing with Britney Spears and Katy Perry, these massive brands, like, really, very Coca-Cola, you know what I mean? There are certain kinds of standards. There are risks you can take, and there’s risks that you don’t. And I think I’m interested in taking a little more risk in my own music.
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I was born in Northern California and lived there until I was about eight years old. Then my parents moved me up to Seattle. I lived there from ages eight to 16. When I was a California kid, I remember running around in my bathing suit and barefoot all the time and getting a suntan.
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‘Teenage Dream’ was the most difficult song I’ve ever been a part of. We wrote five different versions of it. We couldn’t get the lyrics right. Max Martin and Dr. Luke wrote most of the melody, and then Katy Perry and I were responsible for getting the lyrics right.
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When I’m writing for other people, I have to play it safe.
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I’m kinda famous for my barbecues – I’m always hosting parties.
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My No. 1 is Johnny Depp, ever sinceCry Baby.’ He had my heart.
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I thought back to my middle-school experience of having slumber parties and watching Romeo + Juliet and staring at Leo and thinking about my first kiss and what I wanted it to be like. And when you have your first real love, it’s an epiphany, you know? It’s like a whole new world.
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