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

Bonnie McKee

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Bonnie McKee
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: January 20
Actor
Composer
Film Actor
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Vacaville
California
Bonnie Leigh McKee
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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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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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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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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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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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I've been close friends with Katy since teenagers, before she was Katy Perry. She's always been a great resource for me to pull from and watch - from her choice of how public she wants to be about her personal life on down. I also watched her develop from the coffee-house singer-songwriter I knew to her be to playing arenas and killing it.
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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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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'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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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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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 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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I love writing with Adam Lambert. He's really funny and very fun, he's a great friend.
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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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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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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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No matter what, I always have expensive designer shoes. It's all about the shoes for me.
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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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