I want you to forget all your insecurities. I want you to reject anyone of anything that's ever made you feel like you don't belong or don't fit in or made you fell like you're not good enough or pretty enough or thin enough or can't sing well enough or dance well enough or write a song well enough or like you'll never win a Grammy or you'll never sell out Madison Square Garden, you just remember that you're a goddamn superstar and you were born this way!

Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.

I'm encouraging you to know what you're worth. And know that no matter who has more money in class, who has more stuff, who has a country house - nobody is worth more than anybody else.

I never care personally what people say about me. The music, and the message - this will always be more important to me than people thinking I'm the best.

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

I'm supposed to be, I am an artist. Yes, I'm lonely. But I'm married to my loneliness.

Some people are just born stars – you either have it or you haven’t, and I was definitely born one.