“The bomb goes off in Australia, and a 360-degree sphere of ionosphere (which is up there not too far above your heads, not too many miles) flashes. In other words, the flash in Australia, the ionosphere flashes. People get a secondary kickback from the ionosphere just as though they were standing next to the bomb, don't you see?”
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“Now we say there's, well, another place in the world-there's India. Wonderful place - except for its people.”
“Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them.”
“I find it so important now to be a role model and a figure. And I know that may sound strange to some people, but most important is my connection with my fans and the connection that they breed with one another.”
“I don't care what people think about me, I care what they think about themselves.”
“People want you to fail.”
“I don't feel like I look like the other perfect little pop singers. I think I'm changing what people think is sexy.”
“Gaga and Stefani are my nicknames. I guess when people meet me for the first time and call me Stefani, it bothers me. Because it's something that's reserved for only the people who are closest to me. It's not because I don't like my given name; it's that I became somebody else. I became somebody else for a reason, you know. This is part of what my message is - you can become whoever you want to be, to escape your past.”
“She [my mother] said, "You are fiercely protective of your inventions because you are your fans." She helped me understand my own feelings. When someone has pulled the wool over my eyes, I feel that they have pulled the wool over the eyes of millions of fans around the world. She helped me to forgive. You can't force people to have the same world consciousness and awareness as you do.”
“I'm single right now and I've chosen to be single because I don't have the time to get to know anybody. So it's okay not to have sex, it's okay to get to know people. I'm celibate, celibacy's fine.”
“I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.”
“I dont really ever compare myself to other people, I dont even measure myself in terms of anyone but myself.”
“People think I'm unusual but it's just that we haven't had anyone like this since the Seventies.”
“In case you're wondering whether I lip synch, the answer is no... people think so because I sound so good.”
“I have to be really honest: People who say they can't escape the paparazzi are full of sh*t. Let me just be the artist to throw everybody under the bus. I don't spend lots of money on houses or lots of cars, but I do spend money on security and they never find me.”
“It's funny when people say they see a lot of Madonna in me. I just feel so flattered because I love her and I am just her biggest fan. She is very strong. I love the way she does interviews -you know you won't get anything past her.”
“People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.”
“I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.”
“I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.”
“Some people are just born stars – you either have it or you haven’t, and I was definitely born one.”