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
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.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a commitment to love and creativity while empowering others to embrace their individuality.
In this quote, Lady Gaga reveals her deep devotion to both love and art, highlighting her desire to be a mentor to young fans who might feel out of place, just as she once did. She seeks to liberate them from their fears and encourages them to carve out their own identities, emphasizing the importance of self-acceptance and expression in a world that can often be overwhelming and judgmental.
In practice
In a speech at an art festival, a speaker might use this quote to inspire young 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. What’s the line? I don’t 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.
I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely.
When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.
Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist notions of utility. The idea of doing something purely for the delight of it has always rattled the grey-bearded guardians of the state. Sheer pointlessness has always been a deeply subversive affair.
For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emotions eternally the same in all of us: love, pity, terror do not show favorites or leave any of us out.
Man must speak, then sing, then dance. The speaking is the brain, the thinking man. The singing is the emotion. The dancing is the Dionysian ecstasy which carries away all.
I'd probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I know. But I write songs about people or after I meet them and they're somewhat biographical - they're fiction but also non-fiction.
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