If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.
Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.
I've been popular and unpopular, successful and unsuccessful, loved and loathed, and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore, I feel free to take whatever risks I want.
Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by 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.
Only when I’m dancing can I feel this free.
Only love can last.
There’s no borderline for the things that I can say, do, and create...
If you want to change the world, change yourself.
Manipulating people, that’s what I’m good at.
I’m not a reluctant pop star. I’m very grateful and happy for everything that I have and for things when they go well. On the other hand, I’ve had enough of the other side to know that if it doesn’t, I will survive that and life goes on.
I wanted to be a nun. I saw nuns as superstars. When I was growing up I went to a Catholic school, and the nuns, to me, were these superhuman, beautiful, fantastic people.
I don’t care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think.
I want to keep growing and living life to the fullest for as long as I’m on this planet.
I wouldn’t say I wanna conquer the world anymore. But I want to be a part of making the world a better place. I want to inspire people and I wanna be part of the solution.
I always acted like a star long before I was one.
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.
It’s none of your business what people say about you.
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.
There’s one thing you can’t download and that’s a live performance. And I know how to put on a show, and enjoy performing, and I’ll always have that.