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I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.
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It takes time to become myself every morning.
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There is spontaneity to my work.
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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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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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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 write music every day.
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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've had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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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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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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I'm very free-spirited.
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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 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'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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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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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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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.