“Pop music will never be low brow.”
Music“What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.”
Famous“Pop music will never be low brow.”
Music“My mom and I are very close.”
Mom“Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.”
Art“I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.”
Dad“I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.”
Nature“It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.”
Family“I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.”
Hope“I don't want to make niche-oriented music.”
Music“I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.”
Fitness“I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.”
Family“What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.”
Famous“Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.”
Music“I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.”
Experience“What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.”
Art“I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.”
Future“I just want to keep writing music.”
Music“When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.”
Morning“I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.”
Diet“I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.”
Famous“Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.”
Money