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" Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I've never been in love before - I don't really know? I think I have. I guess it's subjective in that way. "

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" 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. "

" If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person. "

" My mother always wanted to give back. "

" I don't like talking to celebrities. "

" People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway. "

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

" Pop music will never be low brow. "

" No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off. "

" I don't know if it's changing already with 'Joanne,' but my intention is to bring people together that don't know each other and that would maybe feel awkward, but somehow be brought together by the music. That's what I wanted to do. Because that is pure and authentic to my family history and what I stand for. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think what's important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear. "

" I don't know that you can put a label on growth. I'm just me. "

" My whole life is a theater piece. "

" I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way. "

" 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. "

" If I can be a leader, I will. "

" Then, when I'm in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it's all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me. "

" I have to be on such a strict diet constantly. "

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

" I know people said I wasn't selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you're talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted. "

" 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. "

" The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them. "

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" Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful. "

" 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 guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while. "

" Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show. "

" 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. "