Quotes from Bonnie McKee

I've always had a teenage thread running through my music.

I've always had a teenage thread running through my music. On my first album, I had a song called 'Confessions of a Teenage Girl.' It's about using your feminine wealth to get what you want.

I always had the fantasy of Hollywood and Los Angeles and the beach, not realizing that Hollywood was so very far from the beach.

'I throw my hand up in the air sometimes' is when you don't get your way - when you give up, and you're handing it over.

People like hearing songs that sound like something they've heard before, that's reminiscent of their childhood and of what their parents listened to.

I have a notebook of concepts. There are titles everywhere if you are looking for them. I pull from them. There is a secret list that I keep for myself about what I want to sing about, and those are the ones I know I am not going to give up for someone else.

I wanted to make a video for the holidays, but none of the traditional holiday songs were moving me.

When I moved to Seattle in fourth grade, I joined the Seattle Girls' Choir. It's a world-class choir, and we competed, toured Europe, and went and sang at the Vatican, so it was a really awesome experience to have that young.

It's great to just reach out and give something to the fans when they're hungry for it.

I think the key to writing hit songs is simplicity.

I feel like a lot of pop singers hurt themselves if they don't have the proper training.

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

I was invincible. I believed all my problems were gone and I finally made it, that L.A. was my answer to everything.

When I get an artistic itch, I have to scratch it.

I love shoes. I am a shoe fanatic. I love my Giuseppe Zanottis - he is my favorite. I have them in every color. Other than shoes, it's important to have a great black leather jacket.

My No. 1 is Johnny Depp, ever since 'Cry Baby.' He had my heart.

In my mind, I imagined L.A. to be skyscrapers on the beach. Of course, that's not what it actually looks like. And growing up watching 'Beverly Hills 90210' and 'Melrose Place,' I always had an obsession with L.A. and California in general.

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

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

I was discovered out of nowhere. I didn't have family that was in the industry. I didn't know anyone in L.A.; I didn't have any reason to have been discovered. Nowadays, you have YouTube, and people are scouting more, but I really was plucked out of obscurity.

If I know I will be working with someone and they are not keen with writing with a girl, I like to be non-threatening and cool so they will trust me. It's a thought process of who work and how I want to present myself.

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

I like big, soaring melodies and fun, splashy lyrics. Maybe like what Blondie would do in 2013.

For 'Dynamite,' Max and Luke went to dinner and left me with a melody, and then I put it together.