Best quotes by Kesha

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.

So many people say, 'So, what, are you a party girl?' And I say, 'I'm a walking good time.' Do I sometimes go out and drink? Hell, yes. But could I have a number one song if I wasn't also working hard? Maybe that needs a little more respect.

My band and I, we cover our bodies in hairspray and glitter. We use the hairspray to make sure the glitter sticks.

I am so not a proper, good female. I can't dance in high heels and I'm just so not girly, but then I see these men with these banging bodies, dancing in heels, singing, and having so much fun with so much make-up on. That makes me honestly want to be a better woman.

I deal with haters on a daily basis.

I never want to be pretentious.

I'm a singer and a writer first. I started to rap by accident, being playful.

Of course there are certain things that get to me, but I try and lead by example and show people that, especially with haters, that you should just ignore them.

In the limelight I play it off fine, but I can't handle it when I turn off my night-light.

I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records.

My makeup is usually left over from the night before.

I do my laundry on a weekly basis.

I do have a stylist who helps me shop, because I don't have time to shop.

Eventually, I would love to be on my deathbed and looked at as an icon. Right now I'm still at the baby stages of my career. But that is the goal.

I am leading a war against the British Empire. I'm not worried about what Democratic Party hacks say or do.

I can't walk in high heels, never mind dance in them.

All men that date me have to know that their name may end up in a pop song.

When the clock Tick Tocks the party never stops!

You really can't stereotype people or put them in boxes, it's unfair.

I’m sure you gathered this by now: I just do what I want. Have I made out with chicks? Hell yeah. Did I think it was awesome? Hell yeah. I wouldn’t call myself bi. Like, if I didn’t eat meat for a week, it doesn’t make me a vegetarian. So I like people, and that’s just it. I like people.

I grew up with nothing - I remember sometimes not having shoes.

Glitter is my makeup of choice.

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.

I just like playing with makeup and clothes - so I really don't feel like there are rules, and if there are rules, then I think it's up to you to break them.

They say that true love hurts, well this could almost kill me young love murder, that is what this must be I would give it all to not be sleeping alone

I could party in a cardboard box with people who are funny and don't care. For me, it's really about who I surround myself with, so I just try to always be with hilarious people.

If you listen to my record, I'm just honest about stupid stuff most normal people wouldn't put in a pop song.

I want to show you that you can be funny and hot. You can drink and read. People are still getting used to what I am.

If you want to be a legitimate artist, it's more important what you say no to.

Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.

You never know what an artist is going to create next.

I just love animals, and I'm an advocate for animals rights, and my family has rescued dogs from all over the world. I don't believe in animal testing. If you see me in fur, it's always fake. Sometimes you see me wearing skulls, but those are all from roadkill

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.

You can be fun and sexy and still care about issues. I'm excited that people are starting to listen to what I have to say. And if they misunderstand, that's OK. I'm still the new kid on the block. With time, they'll see what I'm about. I'm not going anywhere.

I do love country music.

I do feel like there are the pop stars of the world and then I'm like their dirty little sister, running around with sh*t on my face in combat boots because I can't walk in heels.

Writing for somebody else is really fun 'cause I consider myself a songwriter first and foremost.

I'm writing constantly about all my crazy experiences across the world, so I have a lot of music I've already written.

The probability of life ever evolving on Earth was slim to none. It's insane that we're all walking around and talking.

I listen to a lot of rap where men talk a certain way about women and I'm not offended. It's meant to be funny. I'm throwing it right back at them with humor, but some people can't take it. They're not used to women talking back.

I haven't bought anything excessive. I do plan on buying an island and filling it with baby tigers, though.

I'm really fun. I'm ridiculously fun. I hope I'm infectiously fun.

I want a pig. I want a pig on a leash. A baby pig on a leash.

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.

My show is a sensory assault... in a very brief manner - the show is only 25 minutes long.

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 think people should give in to what they feel like doing at the time and be a raw animal.

I don't get embarrassed.

I don't really plan what comes out of my mouth, and that's what makes most of my lyrics entertaining.

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.

Sometimes I have parties at my house in Nashville and it's clothing-optional, and we just body-paint each other and run around, and I have a giant bed. I'm very much in touch with that side of myself.

It can bum you out when your intentions aren't, like, translated properly.

I don't even think of myself as a quote, unquote star - that's really douchey. I think of myself as just like . . . a dance commander. You have to have dance parties all day and night, and you always have to be excited about having a dance party. You have to have a dance party in Milan one day, and then wake up and have a dance party at, like, four in the morning on national television in L.A. the next day. The hours are insane.

It's not acceptable to torture people for being themselves.

I do destroy men on a weekly basis. It's like a hobby. I'm like a praying mantis.

Life is short and the nights are long, and tonight I moved on.

I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.

I don't want young people to think they can't make a difference because they don't have money.

I know that I have balls. I have bigger balls than a lot of the men that I meet. I'm just a ballsy motherf - ker. I'm not afraid of pushing boundaries. That's what you have to do to become an icon.

You're an animal, you live, maybe this one time is your lifetime - go there. Who cares what somebody else thinks?

Somebody sent me their tooth, which I now wear as an earring. It's a molar, I think. I love it when people send me body parts.

That depends. You’ve got to define ‘party girl.’ If you mean I’m a walking good time, then hells yeah. But I’m not wasted and stumbling out of clubs and getting DUIs. I’m not that kind of party girl. I may be blonde and fun as balls, but I’m not a moron.

I have haters. I have so many haters.

I love creepy old dudes. I love that they have so much self-confidence, despite having no evidence whatsoever to back it up.

I feel like my music stands for the ultimate statement of irreverence.

I was dating a guy once who spoke rudely to a taxi driver. I got out of the cab and walked home. Treat people with respect. I've waited tables, and that's why I just exceedingly overtip. It's exhausting work.

Parents should not let kids listen to my music if it's offensive. I wrote these songs for me.

I want people to think that I'm a magical, weird-looking freak of nature, but they really see me as a sexy Amazon jungle cat. That makes sense - I'm a little bit of both, but I definitely lean toward the narwhal side of the equation.

I try to show the freedom to be yourself, unapologetically and irreverently.

I'm not saying I'm the perfect role model. But I'm honest. Period.

I went through awkward, chubby, total weirdo phases.

I think a lot of people can get wrapped up in comparing themselves. And that's when the tragic downfall comes, because there will always be someone more beautiful.

I am a huge fan of the transgender community.

I'm just honest about the things I believe in. For instance, I went to a past-life regressionist, and he told me that in my past life I was assassinated. I'm pretty sure that I was JFK in my past life.

I don’t love just men. I love people. It’s not about a gender. It’s just about the spirit that exudes from that other person you’re with.