"I've had so many challenges throughout my career, however successful people perceive me to be."
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"I learned a lot about humility and patience, keeping my mouth shut."
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"Love´s nothing else than a war in which both are the winners."
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"I was a buffoon and an idiot until the age of forty"
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"Only the one that hurts you can make you feel better. Only the one that inflicts pain can take it away"
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"People who listen to them properly don't underestimate them. Unfortunately, there's so much about my career and me that distracts people from the actual content of most of my songs."
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"One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it."
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"Being blond is definitely a different state of mind. I can't really put my finger on it, but the artifice of being blond has some incredible sort of sexual connotation."
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"I don't think ultimately God punishes. I think we bring about our own destruction or our own creation."
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"The fact of the matter is that you can use your beauty and use your charm and be flirtatious, and you can get people interested in your beauty. But you cannot maintain that. In the end, talent is the only thing. My work is the only thing that's going to change any minds."
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"I pay attention to what's going on around me. I'm always looking for new energy, new talent, new voices. When you do that I think it's easier to come up with fresh ideas. It's not that my career has been based on surprising people, but it's been about challenging myself - to constantly do new things that are going to broaden my own mind and in the process, hopefully, connect with other people."
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"When I think about popular culture, I can't help but think that we're living in the age of loneliness. There's this illusion that we all have instant access to each other, but we actually have no real connection."
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"As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person."
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"Straight men need to be emasculated.... Every straight guy should have a man's tongue in his mouth at least once."
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"You don't want to be the smartest person in the room; you want to be the dumbest in the room. You want to be surrounded by other thinking people who are going to say something that makes you think, "Oh, my God, that's an amazing idea. Why didn't I think of that.""
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"I see a huge paradox in me - the intense need to be loved and the search for approval juxtaposed with the need to nurture other people, to be the mother I never had."
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"Why did God create men? Because vibrators can't mow the lawn."
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"I'm not going to compromise my artistic integrity."
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"That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out."
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"Catholicism is a really mean religion, and it's incredibly hypocritical. But it plays a role in my life 'cause you can't really get a lot of things out of your head, such as what Jesus Christ looks like and that divorce is a horrible thing."
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