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It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.
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I'm a wandering gypsy.
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What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.
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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 perpetually lonely.
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People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.
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I adored Freddie Mercury and Queen had a hit called Radio Gaga. That's why I love the name. Freddie was unique - one of the biggest personalities in the whole of pop music. He was not only a singer but also a fantastic performer, a man of the theatre and someone who constantly transformed himself. In short: a genius.
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I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.
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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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My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me.
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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'm not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.
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I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don't live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.
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I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.
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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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Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.
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This thing that I do with caring about the message in my music, it's not separate from my work as a commercial artist; they're totally one and the same. I'm always going to be thinking about what my voice means.
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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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Knowing that I inspired SAM SMITH is one of the most powerful experiences I've had as an artist. I was Sam. I still am Sam.
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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 is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.
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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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I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?