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Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.
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I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.
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I'm very free-spirited.
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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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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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My whole life is a theater piece.
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It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.
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I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.
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I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.
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I believe in a passion for inclusion.
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Put your hands up and cheer for yourselves! You are strong, you are brave, you are confident, and I f*ing love you, Israel.
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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
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Peace. it does not mean to be in a place where there is no trouble, noise, or hard work. it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart
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I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.
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If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.
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I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music... Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time - the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.
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I'm terrified of therapy because I don't want it to mess with my creativity.
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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 can't even drive a car. I don't have a driver's license. I have a rented apartment in New York. That's it. When I travel, I have almost all of my possessions with me. That's how little I own.
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I don't feel like I look like the other perfect little pop singers. I think I'm changing what people think is sexy.
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I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.
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In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'