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There are some people in this world that believe being gay is a choice. It's not a choice, we're born this way.
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I think what's important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.
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It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn't make me feel good at all.
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If I can be a leader, I will.
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As soon as I go out into the world, I belong, in a way, to everyone else. It's legal to follow me. It's legal to stalk me at the beach. And I can't call the police or ask them to leave.
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I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.
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My new album that I'm creating, which is finished pretty much, was written with this new instinctual energy that I've developed getting to know my fans. They protect me, so now it's my destiny to protect them.
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I love my daddy. My daddy's everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.
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The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.
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I am a feminist. I reject wholeheartedly the way we are taught to perceive women. The beauty of women, how a woman should act or behave. Women are strong and fragile. Women are beautiful and ugly. We are soft-spoken and loud, all at once. There is something mind-controlling about the way we're taught to view women.
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I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.
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Prejudice is a disease. So is fashion. But I will not wear prejudice.
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Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.
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I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.
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No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it's pretty intense.
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My audience went, 'Wait, why is she singing jazz? What's going on?' And then they went, 'Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.' And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.
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I'm a wandering gypsy.
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I always say, you gotta play a dive bar like you play an arena, and you play an arena like you play a dive bar.
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I feel that flip-flops are the downfall of many relationships. It's, like, first it's the flip-flops, and then it's the sweatpants...it's the gateway drug to no sex.
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The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.
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Music and visual performance have to influence each other. Designers and musicians have to be the nexus of all things pop culture, so I think about designers when I'm making music.
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The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.
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I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.
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The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate against all forms of discrimination + prejudice.