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I'm always on the market for a new friend, period. As your success continues to grow, you start to see who your real friends are. But I'm always looking for wonderful people to have in my life that have no agenda and aren't fake friends.
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Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.
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I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.
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We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.
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In terms of my involvement in 'don't ask, don't tell' and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools - these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.
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I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.
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All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they'll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad's restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.
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I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It's best not to ask questions and just enjoy.
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I was always trying - I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.
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I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.
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I've had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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I'm very free-spirited.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.
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I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.
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I know people said I wasn't selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you're talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.
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None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction - they're always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.
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You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true