The best way to kill someone is from the inside, by crushing their hopes and dreams.

If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.

The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.

My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't.

Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don't compromise.

I'd say the most dangerous thing I've ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand...

I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it.

That was extraordinary. Unfortunately, extraordinarily bad.

I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.

Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people.

Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.

All is changed, changed utterlyA terrible beauty is born

Time heals all wounds. And if it doesn't, you name them something other than wounds and agree to let them stay.

...people quote proverbs without realizing they're really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression...

I didn't go to high school, but when I did go to school, I was actually in the group made up of cheerleaders; I just wasn't one of them. But I hung out with a bunch of different kids.

Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing.

I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images

I feel as though I've proved myself these last five years that I can be one of the top players in the league.

I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.

Every child has to raise itself.

Those who have once got an ascendancy, and possessed themselves of all the resources of the nation, their revenues and offices, have immense means for retaining their advantage.