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Fame for me is not external, it’s internal. So I’ve been famous for a long time.
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Applause was designed to bemuse and confuse you until it explodes into a chorus that reminds us why we love pop music.
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When I heard 'Jesus, Take the Wheel,' I was like, OK. Some people look at it as a song written for an American Idol, Carrie Underwood, who is wonderful. But when you're a songwriter listening to a song, you hear something else. I heard that song, and wow.
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I'm an inventor.
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I try to not focus on what people expect from me.
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At the end of the day, who I really and truly am is a little girl who loved to play the piano.
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God bless pop music and God bless MTV.
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More education for women. More jobs for women. More equal opportunities for women. More women to be taken seriously. And I think more than anything we wish to be heard and not to be shut down. I think this is a good thing to think about for any community; what is important is that our voices be heard and not swallowed in an abyss of history.
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I want to - more than anything - to create a moment that people will never forget. Not for me, but for themselves. That's what I remember about great Super Bowl performances in the past, when you really get lost in the moment with your family.
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I don't want to see Bowie in a tracksuit. He never let anyone see him that way. The outlet for my work is not just the music and the videos, it's every breathing moment of my life. I'm always saying something about art and music and fame. That's why you don't ever catch me in sweatpants.
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When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.
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I think that fashion and music go hand-in-hand, and they always should. It's the artist's job to create imagery that matches the music... I think they're very intertwined.
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I've gone bankrupt about four times now. Every dollar I earn goes on the show.
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So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.
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I don't view interviewing as much of a performance. My whole life is in essence a performance but singing and dancing for television is an entirely different thing.
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People think I'm unusual but it's just that we haven't had anyone like this since the Seventies.
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I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you - when life opens that door for you, I should say - I think it's important to be giving, to return the love back.
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Making your dad happy is - especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I'll tell you - it feels really good.
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People ask me why I wear veils. I reply, I am mourning. Mourning what? Well I figure something shitty must be going on somewhere.
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Take My Picture, Hollywood! I Wanna Be a Star!
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When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time.
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It's sort of like my past is an unfinished painting, and as the artist of that painting, I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again.
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I don't want to sound presumptuous, but I've made it my goal to revolutionize pop music. The last revolution was launched by Madonna 25 years ago
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A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I'd die for my fans.