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.
BONNIE MCKEEI 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.
More Bonnie McKee Quotes
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I think one day I’d like to win an Oscar.
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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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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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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.
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As long as I can reach somebody, then I feel like I’m doing my job.
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It’s nice to really have the freedom to write what I want.
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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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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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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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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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I think I’ve learnt a lot about bullying and how to deal with bullying and how to get over that and to just be yourself and forget the haters.
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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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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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When I write for myself, I just get to be myself.
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Ke$ha is super talented and super fun and always down to party – I love that girl.
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