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" I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future. "

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" I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way. "

" I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night. "

" Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be. "

" I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one. "

" None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction - they're always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life. "

" The kindness that's been shown to me, by doctors as well as my family and my friends, it's really saved my life. "

" I wouldn't say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do. "

" Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it. "

" Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We're very different. I wouldn't make that comparison at all, and I don't mean to disrespect Madonna: she's a nice lady, and she's had a fantastic, huge career - biggest pop star of all time. "

" I don't know if I'm selfless - I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that's not completely selfless. But the truth is I'm not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That's always been how I am. "

" I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor. "

" Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. "

" No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it's pretty intense. "

" What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous. "

" I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me. "

" Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves. "

" I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life. "

" I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly. "

" I always say, you gotta play a dive bar like you play an arena, and you play an arena like you play a dive bar. "

" My apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage - they're just not stages you're allowed to see. "

" Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history... this is what makes you strong. It's not looking out that's going to do that - it's looking in. "

" I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need. "

" I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job. "

" 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. "

" Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world. "

" If you were to ask me what I want to do - I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference. "

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" I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with. "

" Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead. "

" I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, 'cause I'm very smart. "