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I am the excuse to explore your identity. To be exactly who you are and to feel unafraid. To not judge yourself, to not hate yourself.
If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.
If you ask most people, 'Who's Lily Allen?,' they'll say, 'That girl who's in the papers all the time.' Not that girl who wrote songs.
A lot of songs are empowering because everybody who has been through a hard time in a relationship or in their lives can relate to it.
I knew the second I finished the first record - 'House Of Balloons' - and had all this material leftover that a trilogy would be best.
I'm a people pleaser. I hold a lot of things in. I'm always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don't rage; I usually don't curse.
My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punches because everything was new to me.
There's an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters.
I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I'm super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.
Every body type is different - that's what makes you unique. What makes you special is you, and you are different from the next person.
I'm definitely not trying to be, or am, a poster child for anything so structured. But I do have my own personal faith most definitely.
I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.
And don't worry, if I get thrown in jail in Manila, Beyonce will just bail me out. Sold out night 2 in the Philippines. I love it here!
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.
Making ziti for the Chicago Fire Department! I hope they're not too busy today, but this should fill their bellies I hope they like it!
I love MySpace; it's done an amazing job for me and it's been insane over the past couple of weeks, but I'm not a poster girl for them.
It's hard to wrap my head around the fact that there are people who can't or won't see what Black Lives Matter is trying to accomplish.
I just pinch myself, because I think if theres anything I can be proud of, Ive survived success, which I think is difficult these days.
I like it when I'm on the stage, but honestly, I would be very happy if I could cut it off, just enjoy my life when I wasn't performing.
For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
It has taken me most of my adult life to come to terms with who I am. To do that, I had to break free of attitudes that brought me down.
Be brave and celebrate with us your 'perceived flaws,' as society tells us. May we make our flaws famous, and thus redefine the heinous.
I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public.
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 think one of my big struggles with being famous in my early 20s was that there was a constant running commentary telling me who I was.
Spend time with people who know how to use their days well. Just as iron sharpens iron, positive people will inspire you to be positive.
I think I've realized that business and being polite [don't] match. You can be fair, but me being polite was not me being fair to myself.
If you've been doing all you can and it's not happening for you, go out and have you a good old time. Put on your sexy dress and move on.
My biggest thing is to teach not to focus on the aesthetic. It's really about who you are, and the human being, that makes you beautiful.
You can't always understand if someone's into you or not, so you should never really pursue something too far without gauging that first.
Bad things are always going to happen in life; People will eventually hurt you, but you can't use that as an excuse to hurt someone back.
Recording is more autobiographical than acting. It's me - either how I'm feeling then or once felt at some point in my life. It's all me.
I always knew I wanted a great man of God, someone who was going to be an inspiration for people and also be a lovely husband and father.
I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that's going on. I feel like I'm in my own bubble.
My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.
The vibe on 'Starboy' comes from that hip-hop culture of braggadocio, from Wu-Tang and 50 Cent, the kind of music I listened to as a kid.
I just pinch myself, because I think if there's anything I can be proud of, I've survived success, which I think is difficult these days.
We're all going through our problems, but we all have the same insecurities and we all have the same abilities and we all need each other.
Well, I've cleaned bathrooms in a warehouse. That was pretty terrible. But I can't complain because I'm sure other people have done worse.
I still want to make a pop record. I want to make a more sonically current pop record. I maybe want to make people move a little bit more.
Poetic justice, poetic justice.. if I told you that a flower bloom in a dark room would you trust it. I mean I write poems in these songs.
My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.
When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.
Be inspired to ignore their ignorant message, and feel gratitude in your heart that you are not burdened or addicted to hate, as they are.
So many will try to destroy me. So many, over and over, coming in periods of greatness. But in this period, I cannot be broken: GAGAKLEIN.
If you're performing music that is not who you are or where you're at, it is painful. It's painful for the performer and for the audience.
The fact that you can love something that you've lost is all the incentive you need to love again, as opposed to becoming comfortably numb.
My story, or my life or my legacy can hopefully show [fans] that once you’re down, that doesn’t mean you’re down forever. You never let up.
I don't follow trends. I'm just not into what everyone else is wearing. I have my own look, which I call 'Lolita Meets Old Hollywood Glam.'
When I first started out, I was really attracted to having my own sense of style because I started swing dancing, lindy hop, and jitterbug.