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 went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, 'cause I'm very smart.
I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.
If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it's not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?
We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.
None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction - they're always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.
What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.
If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.
It's an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.
It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.
I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.
I'm really happy and had such an amazing time performing at Super Bowl - wish I could relive it all over again.
I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.
I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.
This thing that I do with caring about the message in my music, it's not separate from my work as a commercial artist; they're totally one and the same. I'm always going to be thinking about what my voice means.
I was always trying - I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.
Making your dad happy is - especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I'll tell you - it feels really good.
The kindness that's been shown to me, by doctors as well as my family and my friends, it's really saved my life.
I don't know if it's changing already with 'Joanne,' but my intention is to bring people together that don't know each other and that would maybe feel awkward, but somehow be brought together by the music. That's what I wanted to do. Because that is pure and authentic to my family history and what I stand for.
I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
I don't know if I'm selfless - I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that's not completely selfless. But the truth is I'm not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That's always been how I am.
Joanne' is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.
I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.
I love my daddy. My daddy's everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.
I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.
My apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage - they're just not stages you're allowed to see.
Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I've never been in love before - I don't really know? I think I have. I guess it's subjective in that way.
I actually don't want a throne at all, because I don't view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.
I always say, you gotta play a dive bar like you play an arena, and you play an arena like you play a dive bar.
I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.
I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.