Part of me sees myself as talented, and the other part sees me as strange. Ideas get stuck in your head and nothing changes them. Not even fame.
I found school pretty tough. I got the mickey taken out of me at school.
In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.
I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.
New York is a bit of a dangerous place to me because you often leave in a blur.
The music industry doesn't exist the way it used to. You'll never have another star like the stars of the '90s.
I wanted to make an unashamed pop record. I became obsessed with Disney soundtracks from the '50s, so I decided to make my own.
I've always said in the press, I can fall in love with a man. I can fall in love with a woman. And I've always said that I have no shame in that.
I can see how weird I was. One day I decided the school needed a Christmas tree and spent hours dragging this huge beast of a tree into school. No one was pleased. I got two weeks detention because I was 45 minutes late and had made a big mess of leaves and soil all over the building. All the kids just laughed at me.
I'm a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms.
Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.
When you come from nowhere, I am fully aware of the fact that people have to compare you to other artists to kind of place you.
I certainly don't follow fashion. I think fashion, as far as the industry and the whole world that surrounds it, is quite vile, and I'm repelled by it.
Lady Gaga has a very unjaded intelligence. It's brilliant, 'cause it's anti-snob.
I love collaborating with strong women.
I want to make big-sounding pop records.
I never talk about anything to do with my sexuality.
I am very suspicious of people.
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