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.
And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
There is no model, there is only color.
As long as we are engaged in storytelling that moves the culture forward, it doesn't matter what format it is.
I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I'm a writer... I write.
When I do listen to music, I'm more prone to listen to the people I've always listened to: George Jones, Otis Redding, Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris.
I don't know if I believe in art. I certainly believe in light.
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