The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated.

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.

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

When I deal with my struggles in my songs, I feel like most people are going to identify with my struggles because they are essentially dealing with the same things.

I used to be a mean maniac. Someone once threw a firecracker at a show and I jumped off the side of the stage and whacked 'em on the side of the head.

I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253)

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

When it comes to Starbucks, I take every threat very personally.

Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I'm destroying myself.

To be married to a wife who can set type is happiness indeed.

Generally, elders are among the more reverent members of the Church, but there is no law prescribing their age.

There is no positive law: Many things are bad by that, which otherwise were not.

And be these juggling friends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope.