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I have no clue why, but maybe sometimes when there's someone you don't hear from, it's the person you want to hear from the most.
I wanted it to be like Amy Grant, but it didn't pan out that way. My label actually went bankrupt, and I was left without a home.
I grew up listening to gospel. That was the only thing that I had reference to because that was what my family was involved with.
I used to consider the listener. But now I'm in a space where, if I'm not inspired, I can't really do the music. I can't feel it.
People ask me why I wear veils. I reply, I am mourning. Mourning what? Well I figure something shitty must be going on somewhere.
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.
We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.
I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.
We all have our imperfections. But I'm human, and you know, it's important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.
We ain't got nothing without love. That's all we'll have when the world is through Cause, baby, we ain't got nothing without love.
I always treat myself to one meal on Sundays when I can have whatever I want. Usually it's pizza, which is my favorite indulgence.
Right now, after giving birth, I really understand the power of my body. I just feel my body means something completely different.
How big can you be if just the underground niggas know you? You can't buy your mom a house when you just an underground celebrity.
I don't like to think of it as being fired. Instead, I prefer to think of it as being on indefinite leave with a sabbatical flair.
It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us.
Bound together by our beliefs, we are like minded individuals, sharing a common vision, pushing toward a world rid of color lines.
I really don't know anything else because my brothers were famous when I was two years old. So I know nothing else, no other life.
Control meant not only taking care of myself but living in a much less protected world. And doing that meant growing a tough skin.
I just feel like I have this gift that I've been given. It's like, 'Someone unwrap it! Here it is!' That drive can't be held down.
Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses because we were born this way.
I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga. They said I was very theatrical... So they said, you're Gaga.
I remember watching the mascara tears flood the ivories and I thought, "It's OK to be sad." I've been trained to love my darkness.
I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga, they said I was very theatrical and they said, 'You're Gaga'.
I think the whole, like, cultural diversity and the arty side of London is really, really great. And how it's so historic as well.
She's Beyoncé, and I'm [Jay-Z's] new protégée. When we see each other we say hi. We're not enemies, but we're not friends friends.
I started rapping since, like, 14. But I've been obsessed with rap from when I was 11. I heard 'Baby Don't Cry,' I'll never forget.
There are artists, true performers that have come before me who have been a big inspiration to me. I hope I do the same for others.
I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.
I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.
I am a woman of theatre, I'm a librarian of theatre and I love all different kinds of music and all different kinds of expressions.
I'm pretty laid-back in real life. I just love hanging with my friends and making jokes. The jokes don't stop - literally, all day.
I love my husband, but it is nothing like a conversation with a woman that understands you. I grow so much from those conversations.
I definitely have a little attraction to bad guys, but they have to be sweethearts underneath. After all, I like to be treated well.
My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.
As I'm writing it, I'm kind of curious to see what's going to happen. It almost feels like I'm the writer and I'm the listener, too.
The statement is that I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time.
No matter how many people are screaming your name or how many Number One hits you have, you can still wake up and feel like a loser.
You don't want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That's what I'm missing right now.
I cant immediately get all this coverage when my record comes out. The way I sell gold and platinum records is by being on the road.
I'd love to do something dark, something that has nothing to do with music or comedy. Anything, but I'm still learning what I can do.
In all my days of schooling, from preschool all the way up to 12th grade, there was not one white person in my class. Literally zero.
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.
I miss people. I miss going anywhere and meeting a random person and saying 'Hi' and having a conversation about life. I love people.
I just love working with Eminem. He's just one of my favorite rappers, and his lyrics - he's a true poet, and I enjoy that about him.
I can't immediately get all this coverage when my record comes out. The way I sell gold and platinum records is by being on the road.
So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!
I think most music provides the same messages - whether it be 'I'm unhappy' or 'I love a girl.' I just liked the package of rap music.
To cut off the confusion and accept an answer just because it's too scary not to have an answer is a good way to get the wrong answer.
In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.
I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.