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.
When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.
As an actor, you are always looking for roles that will challenge you, and when I came upon Aung San Suu Kyi, it wasn't just about that but also about stepping into the shoes of someone who means so much to millions of people.
People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.
When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
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