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 never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
Interpretation
The Monster Ball became a profound and transformative event unexpectedly, intertwining music and spirituality.
Lady Gaga expresses that her artistic endeavor, the Monster Ball, transcended its original purpose, evolving into a significant and almost spiritual experience for both her and her audience. This highlights the unpredictable power of art to evoke deep emotional and spiritual responses, suggesting that creativity can take on a life of its own beyond the creator's intentions.
In practice
In a discussion about how concerts can move us spiritually.
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.
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
I look around, and 50 percent of the big-budget entertainment you are seeing these days is dystopian. This is the era of 'Hunger Games' and blasted landscapes and 'The Walking Dead.'
I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.
One of the attractions of translating 'Heroes' is that it's not the kind of play that I write. If it had been, I probably wouldn't have wanted to translate it. There are no one-liners. It's much more a truthful comedy than a play of dazzling wit.
There should be change - the West should understand our music and culture, and vice versa. With such collaboration, artists can come closer to each other and come to know each other.
One of the questions that has most bothered me in my reflections on culture is the question of kitsch. Just what is it? When did it begin? And why?
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