I do feel really determined, and that I have to pull myself together, but I don't really think like, my market has changed and my company has changed, and I'm going to make it BIG in America!
I realize that when I moved out of my father's house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a room of my own, a space of my own to reinvent myself.
Right after high school, I moved to Rio and took classes to become a technician for a manufacturing factory where you had to figure out how to produce 3,000 pairs of jeans. But in Rio, I was by myself, which was very liberating, being so young. I got to do my own thing.
I honestly don't think about myself; it's more about my kids. They were both born in L.A., and they're like little beams of sun, little tornadoes, and they can't be in a confined space. And one of the things I love most about L.A. is the freedom there.
I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years.
I don't consider myself a Hollywood liberal, but I have my convictions and my beliefs.
I remember distinctly running through my neighborhood, thinking I knew how to get to 'Sesame Street,' and then finally finding myself among some scrub trees and realizing I don't know where to go from here. I had to just mope back home.
I love going to cities around the world and seeing the rainbow flag, knowing that it's a safe place where I can be myself.
I just want to write fun, interesting music that pushes boundaries and is still true to myself. I want people to feel something.
At the end of the day, l just want to be myself. I don't set out to be like anyone else.
I really like watching myself a lot because it gives me an opportunity to see it from outside the flesh, and when I view it like that, I can be a lot more cynical and see the things that need to be attacked.
When you've got four people to get dressed to get out the door, you don't really tend to spend a lot of time on yourself. But that's the way I roll anyway. I was never one to do my hair and make-up just to go down to the market, so it's really not that much different. If I get a little eye cream on, I feel like I'm ahead of myself.
When I'm a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It's somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.
My mother taught me early on not to be afraid to put myself out there - especially as a woman.
I just don't think of myself as a star. This is what I do for a living; I'm fortunate that I make ends meet.
I have to constantly remind myself that I am communicating with a person with hearing loss.
I'm very lucky because people send me a lot of stuff and post cool articles and pictures on my wall, which does make life a lot easier for me. When we were at 60,000 or 100,000 'likes,' I was still having to source the content myself, and I was constantly trolling the Internet, whereas now things are sent to me, which does make it a lot easier.
I'm not ashamed to be me. More than anyone else I know, I love my life and accept myself. What's wrong with being unique? I am proud of everything that I am and will become.
I've always wanted to be able to let myself go over the edge.
Not being a genius, I believe in collaboration, and my background as a problem solver means I've never been afraid to work with people cleverer than myself.
Sometimes I forget about taking care of myself.
The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.
I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.
I love drag queens... they perform me better than I ever could myself.
Right now I have more confidence in myself. I grew up.
I was born to sell it as a kid. I think it's partially innate, and partly it's because my parents were always very clear: if I needed anything that wasn't a necessity, I was going to have to save my money and buy it myself. That meant not only did I have to buy basketball shoes, but I had to figure out how to pay for college as well.
I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
I'm so hard on myself that when I'm in the studio, I'll write 10 songs and only use one. So those nine songs that are left over, I always think, 'Where could these go? Who could they be for?'
I don't want to prove to anyone or prove to myself. I'd rather just enjoy and show myself that I am capable of doing it and actually going through the process.
I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter.
I've never looked at myself as this pop candy type.
I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.
I was studious and bookish. Not just as a child but also as a teenager. I took myself too seriously.
I think it was really important for me before I 'debuted myself' in front of the world to have a private life with my imagination and my writing for several years. That also made it so I didn't feel desperate for someone to find me.
I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.
I am being taken care of by a higher being than myself or my coaches or my training staff.
