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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."
"And don't worry, if I get thrown in jail in Manila, Beyonce will just bail me out. Sold out night 2 in the Philippines. I love it here!"
"I want my fans to know I'm there for them. I want them to see every part of me. I am never going to leave them."
"I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy."
"I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece."
"There are some people in this world that believe being gay is a choice. It's not a choice, we're born this way."
"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."
"I don't want to be remembered as anything but brave. The only good intention to make money is to help others. I want to be Oprah. I want to be Melinda Gates. If I ever sell products other than my talents, then it will be to give more to others."
"Some of us wear the mask prouder than others."
"The fashion I've acquired over the years is so sacred to me - from costumes to couture, high fashion to punk wear I've collected from my secret international hot spots. I keep everything in an enormous archive in Hollywood. The clothes are on mannequins, also on hangers and in boxes with a photo of each piece, and there's a Web site where I can go to look through everything. It's too big - I could never sort through it myself! But these garments tell the stories of my life."
"Memories are not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics; they can be lost forever."
"Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well."
"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?'"
"Equality cannot be reached if fought in a divisive way."
"I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions."
"I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed."
"I'd rather people love me or hate me than have no opinion of me. Indifference is scary."
"I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true"
"I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big."
"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."