"When you're 25, it's a little bit easier to be daring, especially if you are a pop star, because eccentric behavior is expected from you."
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"I really want to see everything. If it's around me and it's part of my show, I need to be a part of all of it. From the creation of the music, to the surface of the floor, to everyone's hairstyle, to the details with the buttons and the bows and the snaps and the zippers. All of those things!"
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"Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe."
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"I have my work and my faith... If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I don't care."
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"Having children made me go down a road of serious introspection and self-examination. I think it's informed and hopefully enhanced my creativity."
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"I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy' or 'What do you think of this?'"
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"What I find really astonishing is how quiet everybody is in my industry. I mean, nobody in the entertainment business except for maybe a handful of people ever speak out about what's going on. Nobody takes a political stance or expresses an opinion."
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"I can't stand when I walk into a room and everyone's not talking to each other and just on their phones."
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"I've always been interested in electronica, techno, trip-hop, that kind of music. The thing that bothered me about a lot of that music, though, was it seemed devoid of emotion. There wasn't a lot that felt personal."
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"Believing in yourself and being willing to do anything, to walk through the fire, to do what it is that you want to do. Getting out of that car accident covered with blood to play the gig . . . I mean, that's me. That's just me."
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"I miss New York. I still love how people talk to you on the street - just assault you and tell you what they think of your jacket."
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"In my coming-of-age time, there was no internet, no social networking, nothing. It was just show after show, hoping one day somebody would notice you."
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"Me and Mr. Brainwash in Toronto signing his mural at Hard Candy Fitness Opening! #artforfreedom"
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"Nowadays New-York is not the exciting place it used to be. It still has great energy; I still put my finger in the socket. But it doesn't feel alive, cracking with that synergy between the art world and music world and fashion world that was happening in the 80s. A lot of people died."
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"I'll rest when I'm dead. I'm hungry and life is short!"
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"I ran to the forest, I ran to the trees. I ran and I ran, I was looking for me."
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"Who needs a smile when a tear's so full of love?"
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"I've always wanted to be taller. I feel like a shrimp, but that's the way it goes. I'm five-foot four-and-a-half-inches - that's actually average. Everything about me is average. Everything's normal, in the books. It's the things inside me that make me not average."
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"I think all of us make the mistake of thinking we're going to change people when we get together. But we're not. People are who they are. And people change in their own time."
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"Dress like Britney Spears and think like me, and everything will be fine."
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