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I wanted to be famous, I wanted everybody to love me. I wanted to be a star. I worked really hard, and my dream came true.
When you make a movie, it seems like there's nothing but resistance. It's kind of a miracle that any movie ever gets made.
I actually always try to have a moment in my show where I can just lay down on stage and talk to people for a little while.
I live - I live a highly scheduled life. There's absolutely no time wasted. I'm very focused. And I have a great assistant.
When I first moved to New York I wanted to be a dancer, I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence.
Just because I'm presented life in a certain way doesn't mean I do all these things. It's just something I choose to express.
I've been practicing yoga very seriously for a little over a year and I believe that helped my voice and affected my singing.
Some people out there think everything I do is a publicity stunt, they think when I go to the bathroom it's a publicity stunt.
People have this idea that if you're sexual and beautiful and provocative, then there's nothing else you could possibly offer.
Britney Spears became my talisman. I became obsessed with wearing Britney T-shirts. I felt it would bring me luck. And it did.
I want the good life, but I don't want an easy ride. What I want is to work for it, feel the blood and sweat on my fingertips.
I have the most perfect belly button. When I stick my fingers in it, I feel a nerve in the center of my body shoot up my spine.
Ever since my daughter was born I feel the fleetingness of time. And I don't want to waste it on getting the perfect lip color.
I like that you have four minutes to zero in on something and evoke a specific feeling and take people on some sort of journey.
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.
I've always danced and exercised. I can't imagine not doing it. I'll be Martha Graham in my 90s doing contractions on the floor.
My father had to go to work, I used to think he was a jerk. I didn't know his heart was broken, and not another word was spoken.
Where you record is very important. It can't be too nice, it can't be too expensive, it can't have a view to an ocean or a field.
I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.
I worked for everything that I got and I worked long and hard before I got to this point so when I got it I thought I deserve it.
Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away.
Filmmaking is such a collaboration. At a certain point, I suppose you do have to let go and trust the people you're working with.
I miss New York. I still love how people talk to you on the street - just assault you and tell you what they think of your jacket.
My mother died when I was five, and all I did was sit and cry. I cried and cried and cried all day, until the neighbors went away.
As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person.
The idea of service to humanity, putting yourself in situations where people have much less than you do, puts life in perspective.
What else is there for me to conquer? Hopefully my ego. How will I know when I've succeeded? When I stop caring what anyone thinks.
George [Michael], I want your sex, so be my father figure and I will have faith if we have to live hand-to-mouth. The diva himself.
When my world seems to crumble all around, and foolish people try to bring me down, I just think of your smile face, and I'm flying.
I've created a very unconventional family. I have lovers who are three decades younger than me. This makes people very uncomfortable.
I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere.
Sometimes I was in a mood to write a song as if I was writing in my journal and reveal certain parts of me that I was ready to reveal.
We learn our lessons; we get hurt; we want revenge. Then we realize that actually, happiness and forgiving people is the best revenge.
I do think of myself as a queen, but I don't think I'm the only queen. There's room for other queens. We reign over different kingdoms.
Being able to step outside of yourself in order to help someone else is why we're all here, it's what we should all be doing if we can.
Some people are medicating themselves all the time so that they don't have to embrace themselves. If you can't feel, you can't embrace.
And I'll remember the love that you gave me, now that I am standing on my own, I'll remember the way that you changed me, I'll remember.
Do everything you're told. Be a good cheerleader. And never, never say, 'It's not so bad.' Say 'You are almost there!' And say it a lot.
When you're 25, it's a little bit easier to be daring, especially if you are a pop star, because eccentric behavior is expected from you.
I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.
I believe sometimes we aren't always in charge of everything that we do creatively. We submit to things as we're going on our own journey.
One of the many things I learned from all of this: If you aren't willing to fight for what you believe in, then don't even enter the ring.
In America it is not considered to be mentally ill when a woman advances on her prey in a discotheque setting with hardy cocktails present.
You don't have to have a language in common with someone for a sexual rapport. But it helps if the language you don't understand is Italian.
No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.
Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me, I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's buttons.
I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me. I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's buttons.
I don't take drugs. I never did. All the feelings that drugs are supposed to produce in you - confidence or energy - I can produce naturally.
Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.