Latest Bonnie McKee Quotes from Interviews

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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

• As long as I can reach somebody, then I feel like I'm doing my job.

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  Jobs, Long, Feels

• 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

• 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

• I got called to write for Aerosmith, nothing ever came of it, but I ended up spending the day with Steven Tyler and going to his house and we sat down at the piano, just me and him, and he sang for me and played, then he asked me to sing for him, and then we sang harmony together. That was just a big moment where it was like 'oh my god, my life is crazy!' It was really cool.

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  Crazy, Writing, Piano

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

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  Winning, Thinking, One Day

• I've always felt my spirit animal was a Tiger, so it's funny that now in 'Roar' with Katy Perry - which is a song we write together - there's the line: "I got the eye of the Tiger..." So I feel like there's a little bit of me in there.

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  Song, Writing, Eye

• 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

• Maybe I'd like to be a little more than friends with Ryan Gosling, but I'd just like to hang out occasionally.

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  Littles, More Than Friends, Hanging Out

• 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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  Being Yourself, Bullying, Thinking

• I love writing with Adam Lambert. He's really funny and very fun, he's a great friend.

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  Fun, Writing, Great Friend

• Ke$ha is super talented and super fun and always down to party - I love that girl.

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  Girl, Fun, Party

• 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

• A lot of people, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry and a lot of people have written for other people, and of course Bruno Mars. So I think it's a great way to break into the industry and show people what you can do and show them your talent and people tend to listen a little differently to your own music as an artist, when you've proven yourself as a good songwriter for other artists.

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  Thinking, Artist, People

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

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  Writing

• 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

• It's nice to really have the freedom to write what I want.

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  Nice, Writing, Want

• 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

• 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

• It's really liberating and fun to be writing stuff for myself, and really have the freedom to say what I want to say and not really have to think about what somebody else is going to say or have to edit myself to speak from someone else's vision.

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  Fun, Writing, Thinking