I believe in karma, and I believe if you put out positive vibes to everybody, that's all you're going to get back.
Kesha
You don't have to carry a designer bag that costs more than a car to look cool.
I went through awkward, chubby, total weirdo phases.
When you're around me, you're going to get glitter on you.
I'm pretty sure that I was JFK in my past life.
I have rock 'n' roll pumping through my veins.
I grew up in the Bible Belt and I made my own clothes and dyed my hair purple. Nobody ever knew what to do with me.
A friend of mine has a big farm in the desert, and she picks up feathers and roadkill for me, then makes it into clothes. I think it's cool to wear roadkill. If I died and somebody wanted to wear my teeth around their neck to VMAs, I'd feel honored.
I'm not saying I'm the perfect role model. But I'm honest. Period.
I do have a stylist who helps me shop, because I don't have time to shop.
I deal with haters on a daily basis.
One fan sent me one tooth, so I made a necklace out of it. But then I found a bunch of my baby teeth, and started realizing I would love to wear a piece of my fans' bodies on me.
Glitter is my makeup of choice.
I embrace the imperfections and celebrate them.
I want to reconnect to my animal life.
I've done the country, done the pop-rock, done the super-hard electro.
I'm a singer and a writer first. I started to rap by accident, being playful.
Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.
I love wearing the exact same thing all the time because I think it makes you like a cartoon character. They always wear the same outfit and everybody always remembers them for it, so I feel like I should do the same thing.
I do my laundry on a weekly basis.
I've always been loud and obnoxious and sneaking my way into things, and so I feel like I've snuck my way onto the Lollapalooza lineup, and I'm going to sneak my way into whatever else I get to do.
I think people should give in to what they feel like doing at the time and be a raw animal.
I think if you are going to be a singer, you should sing. If you are going to be a dancer, you should dance. If you are going to do a combination of the two, you should make it very clear when you are singing and very clear when you are dancing.
Everything I write is based on something I've personally experienced, or things that my friends have experienced that I just find horribly entertaining.
I've always been into bearded dudes.
I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.
What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.
I want a pig. I want a pig on a leash. A baby pig on a leash.
I don't want young people to think they can't make a difference because they don't have money.
I was very studious.
Writing for somebody else is really fun 'cause I consider myself a songwriter first and foremost.
Just because I'm sassy and have a mouth on me doesn't mean I'm coming from a negative place.
You have to have a sense of humor about life to get through it.
I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records.
I played saxophone and trumpet. Pretty nerdy.
I do love country music.
I just think that gay men have much better taste than any straight man I have met. I have never gotten any grief about having a good time, being unapologetic, and irreverent from a gay man.
I am a huge fan of the transgender community.
You really can't stereotype people or put them in boxes, it's unfair.
I'm really fun. I'm ridiculously fun. I hope I'm infectiously fun.
I think people need to have fun with whatever they're doing - makeup, their clothes, music, live shows - anything you don't need to take too seriously, don't take too seriously.
Rap in general has never been my steez, but I like it.
It can bum you out when your intentions aren't, like, translated properly.
I don't have the best body in the world, but I know for a fact that I have a really good voice.
Be yourself. Unapologetically.
It is so fascinating that someone can commit their whole entire lifestyle to being such a fantastic woman when I'm such a bum about it.
I write about stuff that happens to me, so I try to live as interesting a life as possible.
I have haters. I have so many haters.
What I'm bringing to the pop table is that I'm not pretentious.
My band and I, we cover our bodies in hairspray and glitter. We use the hairspray to make sure the glitter sticks.
