"I think they were scared of me because I was different."
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"Fame can be very disruptive. It can be like a drug. It gives you the feeling that you're happy, it gives you the feeling of self-importance, it gives you the feeling of fullfilment; but it can distract you from what is really important."
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"If at first you don't succeed, you're obviously not me."
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"People have no morals, I swear to God. The things that people do for ratings! It's unforgivable."
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"I might be responsible for as many gay marriages as I am for heterosexual divorces."
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"I like coming up with these spectacular extravaganzas that will, hopefully, totally blow people away. But I also like the intimacy of stopping it all and sitting at the edge of the stage and connecting with individual people in the audience."
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"The only way I've been able to survive the betrayal of lovers, family members, and society is to be able to create as an artist."
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"I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing."
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"Death was a big part of my life growing up. I went to lots of funerals."
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"I used mythology to tell the story [in Living with Love], with the story of the minotaur and the matador and fighting and fighting for love and the color red and flowers and horns and death and naked men. You know, the important things in life."
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"I think art should be controversial. I think it should make people think."
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"I think you can be defiant and rebellious and still be strong and positive."
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"My goal from the very beginning was just to write good songs that don't require any production to be felt or understood. I wanted to be able to sit in a room with a guitar and play the song from beginning to end and have it be as impactful as if you heard the studio version with all the bells and whistles."
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"I like to be a team player. All the projects I do are collaborations. And I want to solicit the opinions and help of other people. I'm not interested in being the one in charge."
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"I don't think anyone strives to be anything negative. I just think that it's our nature to only focus on a few things in life and forget about a lot of other stuff."
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"I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful."
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"When the day is done the most important thing is loving people and sharing love."
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"The essence of femininity is to absolutely love being a woman."
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"Trying to be a professional dancer, paying my rent by posing nude for art classes, staring at people staring at me naked. Daring them to think of me as anything but a form they were trying to capture with their pencils and charcoal. I was defiant. Hell-bent on surviving. On making it. But it was hard and it was lonely, and I had to dare myself every day to keep going."
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"There is a very modest side to me too. How far away from me is the image? It's about 20 steps away."
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