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.

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.

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.

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

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

Publicity is the soul of stupidity, but we must not forget that we live in a stupid universe, so publicity is the engine of our world.

Just one thing worse than the dark, ain't there? And that's what's inside it - the things that call it home ...

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

There aren't any moral victories.

The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.

Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.

If you're always strict with yourself, life gets miserable. And we're supposed to enjoy life.

I'm one of 23 million Americans in recovery who have gone on to live productive lives.