I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.
Lady GagaRead
I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.
Interpretation
As an artist, one has the freedom to shape their own identity and how they are perceived by others.
This quote from Lady Gaga emphasizes the creative power and autonomy of artists in defining their public persona. It suggests that artists have the unique ability to influence how the world sees them and that this freedom of choice is integral to their artistic expression.
In practice
In a motivational speech addressing young aspiring artists.
I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.
I am not perfect. I just think that imperfections are beautiful.
I think that once you've had a few No. 1s in your career that you've kind of proven yourself and I don't feel the need to prove anything anymore.
You can be whoever you choose to become in the future, just do it. Just see it and visualize it and every day of your life project that about yourself.
Sexuality is half poison and half liberation. Whatβs the line? I donβt have a line.
I very much want to inject gay culture into the mainstream. It's not an underground tool for me. It's my whole life.
Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.
There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It's a form of snobbism, the same sort that perpetuates the idea that drama is more deserving of Awards than comedy.
My work is not about paint. It's about paint at the service of something else. It is not about gooey, chest-beating, macho '50s abstraction that allows paint to sit up on the surface as subject matter about paint.
Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
Acting is the ability to dream on cue.
I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.
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