Top 37 quotes by Bonnie McKee

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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.
Bonnie McKee

Forever , School , Hollywood

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.
Bonnie McKee

Mistake , Hurt , Cheating

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.
Bonnie McKee

Mistake , Hurt , Cheating

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.
Bonnie McKee

"Bonnie McKee, the Writer Behind Your Fave Katy Perry Songs, Talks Going Solo, Writing 'Roar,' and More". Interview With Mickey Woods, www.glamour.com. October 23, 2013. Source

House , Writing , Coffee

It's just funny that anybody would care at all to take apart the words that I write. It's kind of cool!
Bonnie McKee

Care , Writing , Kind

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

Writing

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.
Bonnie McKee

Artist , Writing , Shoes

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

Want , Writing , Nice

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.
Bonnie McKee

Dream , Ocean , Sides

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.
Bonnie McKee

Thinking , Fun , Writing

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.
Bonnie McKee

Interesting , Unique , Song

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 McKee

Thinking , Differences , Song

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.
Bonnie McKee

Writing , Crazy , Piano

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

Thinking , One Day , Winning

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.
Bonnie McKee

Feelings , Writing , Song

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."
Bonnie McKee

Writing , Song , Blow