Why spend your whole life trying to be somebody that you're not? It's so much more fun to be yourself **** what everybody says.

I'm beautiful in my way 'cause God makes no mistakes. I'm on the right track baby, I was born this way.

The reason I don't want anyone to control me is not because I want to be in control. I don't want anyone to control me because I don't want anyone to control anyone.

There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

Money can run out but talent is forever

Glam culture is ultimately rooted in obsession, and those of us who are truly devoted and loyal to the lifestyle of glamour are masters of its history. Or, to put it more elegantly, we are librarians.