Bonnie McKee Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.