Helena Meyer:
CLASS OF 2012
Radnor High SchoolClass of 2012
Radnor, PA
Helena's Story
Helena is from Havertown, Pennsylvania. Helena's schools include Radnor High School. Helena later attended Fordham University (Communication and Media Studies) .
Helena's interests include Animals, Art, Black & White. Music Helena likes includes TaNeal, Mike Stud, Ra Ra Riot. TV shows Helena likes include Smash, Petition to get Rocket Power back on TV. (1 million people needed!), So You Think You Can Dance.
One of Helena's favorite quotes is:""A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."
"'Born This Way' is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud."
"Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world."
"I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way."
"I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to--as my father puts it--finally have a real job."
"I don't like celebrities. I don't hang out with them. I don't relate to that life."
"I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need."
"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."
"I don't think I could live without hair, makeup, and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one."
"I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while."
"I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions."
"I hope that what you take from my album is not just the music--which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big."
"I like pushing boundaries."
"I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way."
"I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don't live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans."
"I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element."
"I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly."
"I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me GaGa, they said I was very theatrical and they said, 'You're GaGa.'"
"I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you--when life opens that door for you, I shou...Expand for more
ld say--I think it's important to be giving, to return the love back."
"I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid."
"I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future."
"I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms."
"I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent."
"If you are not being bullied, all I would say--'cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well--is, you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person."
"If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside of you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next."
"In a sense, I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny."
"In the book of GaGa, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it."
"It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family."
"Lady GaGa is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all."
"Pop stars should not eat."
"So, there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates--and then making it cool."
"The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them."
"What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth--and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love."
"What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous."
"When the world has their eyes on you, if you say something that doesn't truly come from your spirit and your soul, or if you wear something that doesn't come from your spirit and your soul, it's an injustice to your position. And so, I'm really myself every single day and I do it because I know my fans would want me to."
"When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange. It's just GaGa."
"Where I come from, it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?' and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead."".
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