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I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.
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Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.
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I don't think I could think of a single thing that's more isolating than being famous.
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I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.
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I write about what I know: sex, pornography, art, fame obsession, drugs, and alcohol. I mean, why would anyone care to listen to me if I wasn't an expert in what I write about?
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When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.
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Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.
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A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.
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I like pushing boundaries.
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I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.
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I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.
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Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.
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My mom and I are very close.
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If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it's not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?
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I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference.
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Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.
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It's an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.
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I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
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What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope... It is not a reflection of all religious people.
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The kindness that's been shown to me, by doctors as well as my family and my friends, it's really saved my life.
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People want you to fail.
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I've learned love is like a brick, you can build a house or sink a dead body.
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I have never had plastic surgery, and there are many pop singers who have.
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I don't know if it's changing already with 'Joanne,' but my intention is to bring people together that don't know each other and that would maybe feel awkward, but somehow be brought together by the music. That's what I wanted to do. Because that is pure and authentic to my family history and what I stand for.