"I have the most perfect belly button. When I stick my fingers in it, I feel a nerve in the center of my body shoot up my spine."
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"I'm so used to people slagging me off. Since the beginning of my career I've been told I have no talent, I can't sing and I'm a one-hit wonder."
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"Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book."
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"But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere."
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"I didn't set out to write certain kinds of songs - I just set out to write good songs."
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"My nature is to provoke, that's true. I can't help myself. But it's always with good intentions."
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"I don't trust any man who hasn't kissed another man."
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"I was sacked from Dunkin' Donuts for squirting the donuts jelly all over the customers."
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"I want the good life, but I don't want an easy ride. What I want is to work for it, feel the blood and sweat on my fingertips."
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"A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that."
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"I wouldn't say I wanna conquer the world anymore. But I want to be a part of making the world a better place. I want to inspire people and I wanna be part of the solution."
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"When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it."
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"Bad girl, drunk by six, kissing someone else's lips. Smoked to many cigarettes today, I'm not happy when I act this way."
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"Manipulating people, that's what I'm good at"
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"No one knows you better than you know yourself. Do the thing you want. Don't wait for someone else"
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"I think the ultimate challenge is to have some kind of style and grace, even though you haven't got money, or standing in society, or formal education. I had a very middle, lower-middle class sort of upbringing, but I identify with people who've had, at some point in their lives to struggle to survive. It adds another color to your character."
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"If you're sure of who you are it doesn't really matter what people call you, does it?"
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"I think the biggest reason I was able to express myself and not be intimidated was by not having a mother. For example, mothers teach you manners. And I absolutely did not learn any of those rules and regulations."
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"Some people out there think everything I do is a publicity stunt, they think when I go to the bathroom it's a publicity stunt."
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"To me, the whole process of being a brush stroke in someone else's painting is a little difficult"
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