I remember watching the mascara tears flood the ivories and I thought, "It's OK to be sad." I've been trained to love my darkness.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

I study everything that I do to become better all the time at my craft. The beauty for me about being an artist is that the dream will never die because I'm not obsessed with material things and don't care about the money and don't care about the attention of the public but only the love of my fans. For me it's about keeping the dream alive of how much more devoted, how much more honest, how much better of an artist can I become? That's the only fear that I ever have, that the dream will die.

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

Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.

I actually don't want a throne at all, because I don't view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.

Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times.