I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life.

I just wanna be myself, and I want you to love me for who I am

Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what's underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don't think it ever will be.

No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.

I’m going to be a star, you know why? Because I have nothing left to lose.