Honestly, I could care less about other people’s opinions about me.

I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.

You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

Yes, some people say to me you’re too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.

I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.

You learn that there’s no right way to do it, no wrong way to do it. It’s just what you feel comfortable with, to trust that, and don’t let anybody box you in to a certain style of parenting or make you feel a certain way about what your kids do.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

I know who I am, I know what I can and can’t do. I know what I will and won’t do. I know what I’m capable of and I don’t agree to do things that I don’t think I can pull off.

I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It’s just funny. And wonderful.

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can’t imagine how often I’ve tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne – to beat her down, hide her.

Everyone has their style and your style explains a lot about who you are – you feel me? I’ve had style since childhood, so I like to dress how I feel. But maybe I get carried away by some trends.

I think that I’m perfect.

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It’s just funny.

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.

There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.

I want people to understand they have to live their own lives the way they want to and not just do what we do.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

I like to be myself, and I don’t pretend. For instance, I don’t dress up for occasions; I am what I am.

I’m fat, but I’m thin inside… there’s a thin man inside every fat man.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

I am what I am. A fighter.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

When I arrived, at first a lot of people were like, ‚This kid is different.‘

My fat never made me less money.

I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I’d get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.

If I’d been born ugly, you’d never have heard of Pele.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they’re pretty, even if they aren’t.

Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way – pouty.

The reason I talk to myself is that I’m the only one whose answers I accept.

I am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

I’m tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he’s not a predator. He doesn’t have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain’t. I’m tough.

I don’t know that you can put a label on growth. I’m just me.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else’s.

I was told that someone on Facebook said something ‚horrible‘ about me. Who cares? At least they’re watching the show.

When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.

You make yourself broad. You make yourself appealing. ‚Hey, y’all, I’m cool with everybody.‘ That’s my message.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

I’ve always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin‘ my thing, my own way. And it’s been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.