Bonnie McKee Quotes

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• Cheating is bad. That's a big mistake I've made, and I've really hurt people. I've never lied about it, though. I've always been honest.

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  Cheating, Hurt, Mistake

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• In my head, I wanted to be Madonna, but the music I was writing on paper was not what you'd choreograph dancers in costumes to. It was more coffee-house stuff.

  Bonnie McKee

  Coffee, Writing, House

  "Bonnie McKee, the Writer Behind Your Fave Katy Perry Songs, Talks Going Solo, Writing 'Roar,' and More". Interview With Mickey Woods, www.glamour.com. October 23, 2013.

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• I think one day I'd like to win an Oscar.

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  Winning, Thinking, One Day

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• I have a reoccurring dream that I'm in the ocean in New Zealand and everything is completely upside down, because it's on the other side of the planet.

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  Dream, Ocean, Sides

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• I just want to give people something to dance to, and something to cry to, and laugh to and fall in love to.

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  Falling In Love, People, Giving

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• Obviously I love writing with Katy [Pery], I feel like we're the same person when we write together. Even though we fight a lot, we fight over every line and we pull each other's hair and we cat-fight all the time, it's always worth it in the end.

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  Writing, Cat, Fighting

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• I'd like to go the Cher route and act and sing and write and have a TV show and do it all.

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  Writing, Tv Shows, Tvs

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• I'm a really visual artist, and I love writing treatments for music videos, photo shoots, fashion, and all the visual parts that go along with making an album.

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  Fashion, Writing, Artist

  "Bonnie McKee, the Writer Behind Your Fave Katy Perry Songs, Talks Going Solo, Writing "Roar," and More". Interview With Mickey Woods, www.glamour.com. October 23, 2013.

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• I like to go to the movies at The Hollywood Forever Cemetery. They do this thing in The Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood where everybody sits out on the grass and they project movies and it's very romantic and very old-school Hollywood, so I love that.

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  School, Forever, Hollywood

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• No matter what, I always have expensive designer shoes. It's all about the shoes for me.

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  Shoes, Matter, Designer

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Every time I work with Dr. Luke I learn something new. He's kind of like the Andy Warhol of pop music, where he mass produces his art but it always still has heart and always still has an emotional thread to it. I think he's really a genius and I'm so lucky to have gotten to work with him.

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  Art, Emotional, Thinking

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• When I go and write with other artists - a lot of the time it's with them - it's like a therapy session almost. I ask them what they're listening to and what they're going through and what their influences are and I try to get inside of their head and step into their shoes for a second.

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  Writing, Artist, Shoes

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• I am a little crazy but when I'm on-stage, then I really get to play it up and perform and be over the top and it's like an outlet. It's fun to 'wild' out.

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  Fun, Crazy, Play

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• There's a feeling that you get when you write songs where... it feels like it's destined to do something. Then sometimes you get that feeling with a song and it never goes anywhere, that happens all the time too, so you never really know.

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  Song, Writing, Feelings

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• Sometimes I write a song and I'm down with it but I'm like yeah, whatever, and then everybody loves it and then it blows up. I'm like: "Okay! I didn't see that coming."

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  Song, Writing, Blow

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• In real life I'm pretty easy going and pretty chill, I'm not the party girl who will go wild and crazy necessarily.

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  Girl, Crazy, Real

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• I tend to get a little quirkier and crazier with my lyrics and come from a different angle when I'm writing for myself.

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  Writing, Different, Littles

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• When I write for myself, I just get to be myself.

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  Writing

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• I love really kitschy bad movies. Showgirls is one of my favorites. I saw House of Versace and died. I'm a big fan of made-for-TV movies because those are instant classics, naturally.

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  House, Fans, Saws

  "Bonnie McKee, the Writer Behind Your Fave Katy Perry Songs, Talks Going Solo, Writing "Roar," and More". Interview With Mickey Woods, www.glamour.com. October 23, 2013.

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• I had an epiphany where I realised that there are song titles everywhere - in advertising, in conversations with people at the grocery store - and every time I open my mind to that and find titles, I then weave a story around that.

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  Song, People, Mind

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• It's just funny that anybody would care at all to take apart the words that I write. It's kind of cool!

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  Writing, Care, Kind

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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." It was about a boy named Liam, who I was just crazy about.

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  Girl, Song, Crazy

  "Bonnie McKee, the Writer Behind Your Fave Katy Perry Songs, Talks Going Solo, Writing "Roar," and More". Interview With Mickey Woods, www.glamour.com. October 23, 2013.

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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.

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  Song, Writing, Kids

  "Bonnie McKee, the Writer Behind Your Fave Katy Perry Songs, Talks Going Solo, Writing 'Roar,' and More". Interview with Mickey Woods, www.glamour.com. October 23, 2013.

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• If you can take it to the next level and really tell an interesting story in a unique and fresh way, then I feel like that's a great song.

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  Song, Unique, Interesting

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• I think the difference between a good song and a great song is... honestly, I think the lyrics, because if you have a really solid melody and solid track and everything is there but then the lyric is just okay, then you've got a good song.

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  Song, Thinking, Differences

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