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. Bonnie McKee Read Quote
I think what it means to be an ‘American Girl,’ and what I wrote the song about, is our freedoms. The idea that we as Americans can be what we want to be and say what we want to say and that we take it for granted. Bonnie McKee Read Quote
Teenage Dream’ was the most difficult song I’ve ever been a part of. We wrote five different versions of it. We couldn’t get the lyrics right. Max Martin and Dr. Luke wrote most of the melody, and then Katy Perry and I were responsible for getting the lyrics right. Bonnie McKee Read Quote
For ‘Dynamite,’ Max and Luke went to dinner and left me with a melody, and then I put it together. Bonnie McKee Read Quote
When I think about ‘Since U Been Gone,’ I think the first thing that comes to mind is ‘Livin’ On A Prayer’ – they’re kind of like sisters, a little bit. And ‘Call Me Maybe’ was so wildly original, and so quirky, and so satisfying. Bonnie McKee Read Quote
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. Bonnie McKee Read Quote
I know ‘Hallelujah’ isn’t actually a Christmas song, but it has that cozy, haunting vibe that sounds like a winter’s night and belongs by a fire. Bonnie McKee Read Quote
I started writing my own songs from the time I was a little kid. I would write my own lyrics to other people’s songs that I heard on the radio and take whatever song and make it about fairies and angels – whatever little girls sing about. Bonnie McKee Read Quote
