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If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.
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I feel the denial of gay marriage sends a prejudice message. Our youth deserve a fair and hopeful future with government that values us equally.
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I like black because it is a vacant space.
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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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I'm perpetually lonely.
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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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I'm not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.
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I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.
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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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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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I do not have to be high to be great. I do not have to be drunk to have a good idea. I can sit with my thoughts and not feel crazy. I can do it... I can do it without the dope.
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I'm a wandering gypsy.
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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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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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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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Prejudice is a disease. So is fashion. But I will not wear prejudice.
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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 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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The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate against all forms of discrimination + prejudice.
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Then, when I'm in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it's all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.
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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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Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.
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I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.
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I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.