It does affect my life in concrete ways. Something else that affects her life is the intimate connection her fans feel with her. She has encouraged this response by jumbling the boundaries of gender with a humanity that says it's okay if you're a girl who likes girls, or a girl who refuses to play the helpless-kitten role, or a girl who is not pretty. As she sang on last year's Not a Pretty Girl, she doesn't want to be one, she wants to be more than that. While she's at it, she'd also like to be regarded as something more than perfection on a pedestal.
People get very, very fervent.
In their excitement sometimes they forget that I'm a person and they tend to trample. They forget I have my own life, my own needs. I think a lot of people get off on that, and I think that's maybe why they get into this line of work, but I'm just not one of them. Which is kinda unfortunate, because I've been confronted with it more and more. It doesn't seem like a dynamic sort of relationship to have with people.