You walk out the door, and you see someone you know, and they ask you how you are, and you just have to say you’re fine when you’re not really fine, but you just can’t get into it, because they would never understand. Well, then comes along a song that speaks to you, that makes you feel like ‘Gosh, I can get through this if she can get through this, I can get through this.'”
"I've made a lot of songs that are just really, really big songs. From the jump, they just blow up," "And I wanted to kind of get back to - not that they weren't real music, but I just wanted to focus on things that felt real, that felt soulful, that felt forever."
"I wanted songs that I could perform in 15 years; I wanted an album that I could perform in 15 years," "Not any songs that were burnt out. I find that when I get on stage now, I don't want to perform a lot of my songs because they don't feel like me. So I want to make songs that are timeless."
“Actually I’m very inspired right now by older, classical artwork and I’ve been looking at the Venus de Milo and I thought it would be fun for my fans, especially during Applause, my single now, to be the Botticelli's Venus de Milo in motion, so she’s coming to life through me.”
“I myself can look at almost any hemline, silhouette, beadwork or heel architecture and tell you very precisely who designed it first, what French painter they stole it from, how many designers reinvented it after them and what cultural and musical movement parented the birth, death and resurrection of that particular trend.”
