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" I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women. "

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" Don't say I hate institutionalised religion - rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I'm saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many. "

" If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next. "

" We are not actually equal - humanity - if we are not allowed to freely love one another. "

" You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem. "

" I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big. "

" I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent. "

" I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone. "

" So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool. "

" 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. "

" There is spontaneity to my work. "

" The dieting wars have got to stop. "

" I don't like L.A. It's just not fun. I don't know why, but I just don't get it. You have to drive to get everywhere, and when it rains everybody freaks out. "

" History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid. "

" A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist. "

" I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification. "

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" I've had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide. "

" I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically. "

" I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed. "

" I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms. "

" This thing that I do with caring about the message in my music, it's not separate from my work as a commercial artist; they're totally one and the same. I'm always going to be thinking about what my voice means. "

" I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference. "

" How I love David Bowie. "

" I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we've all heard about before. "

" In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny. "

" I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy. "

" My whole life is a theater piece. "

" You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much. "

" I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor. "

" I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws. "

" Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy. "