“I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I love what I do. I believe in the message. There's no stopping. I didn't create the fame, the fame...”

“Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love yo...”

“Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body.”

“Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about loveyou know, things I don't care about anymore.”

“All that ever holds somebody back, I think, is fear. For a minute I had fear. [Then] I went into the [dressing] room and shot my fear in the face...”

“It doesn't matter who you are, or where you come from, or how much money you've got in your pocket. You have your own destiny and your own life ahead of you.”

“The secret of happiness: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.”

“Every year when i travel around the world, i wonder if itll be diferent, maybe one year wont come to the show or youll be less festival, but what i realized during ARTPOP is that we belong together...”

“our love likestepping on to a planesitting down in a carwalking on unknown land will either take us to where we belongor throw us into darkness”

“Paris was all so... Parisian. I was captivated by the wonderful wrongness of it all - the unfamiliar fonts, the brand names in the supermarket, the dimensions of the bricks and paving stones. Child...”

“Oh, well, it might look like a patterned world, laid out in prim design, but to those living there it could never be so simple. They were as alive as she: that old peasant contriving to outwit the ...”

“I knew how severe I had been and how bad things had been. The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one who poverty bothers.”