Lady Gaga Quotes
Singer-songwriter
You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.
Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.
'Born this Way' is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.
I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws.
I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.
I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.
Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.
Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.
I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.
I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.
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 don't want to make money; I want to make a difference.
So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.
I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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 think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.
Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That's the upside to things getting challenging.
I like pushing boundaries.
In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'
I believe in a passion for inclusion.
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 just 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 live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.
Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.
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.
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.
Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.
The kindness that's been shown to me, by doctors as well as my family and my friends, it's really saved my life.
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.
When there's justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it's okay for me to say those things.
When I heard 'Jesus, Take the Wheel,' I was like, OK. Some people look at it as a song written for an American Idol, Carrie Underwood, who is wonderful. But when you're a songwriter listening to a song, you hear something else. I heard that song, and wow.
I began singing in dive bars and really small clubs. I dragged my piano down the stairs, and I went down the street with my keyboard, and I would go to every different dive bar that I could get to agree to let me play. I'd call and pretend I was Lady Gaga's manager.
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 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.
The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.
A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.
I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.
I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.
Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.
My apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage - they're just not stages you're allowed to see.
All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they'll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad's restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.
You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.
Pop music will never be low brow.
I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music... Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time - the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.
I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.
I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.
I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.
In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
The dieting wars have got to stop.
I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.
When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.
I don't care about money.
I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
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 have never had plastic surgery, and there are many pop singers who have.
I don't think I could think of a single thing that's more isolating than being famous.
I'm a wandering gypsy.
I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification.
I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
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.
It's honestly true that money means nothing to me.
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 was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.
I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.
I'm really happy and had such an amazing time performing at Super Bowl - wish I could relive it all over again.
I miss people. I miss going anywhere and meeting a random person and saying 'Hi' and having a conversation about life. I love people.
I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you - when life opens that door for you, I should say - I think it's important to be giving, to return the love back.
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've suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life.
The Internet is a toilet. It is.
If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.
The fashion I've acquired over the years is so sacred to me - from costumes to couture, high fashion to punk wear I've collected from my secret international hot spots. I keep everything in an enormous archive in Hollywood.
If you were to ask me what I want to do - I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.
When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.
I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
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 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 guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.
I hope that what you take away 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.
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.
I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.
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.
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.
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.
I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.
Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We're very different. I wouldn't make that comparison at all, and I don't mean to disrespect Madonna: she's a nice lady, and she's had a fantastic, huge career - biggest pop star of all time.
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.
When the whole 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.
I don't know that you can put a label on growth. I'm just me.
I think that once you've had a few No. 1s in your career that you've kind of proven yourself, and I don't feel the need to prove anything anymore.
Being beautiful is not so fun when you're in a business with all men.
In terms of my involvement in 'don't ask, don't tell' and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools - these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.
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.
I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'
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.
I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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.
Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history... this is what makes you strong. It's not looking out that's going to do that - it's looking in.
I'm not a supermodel. That's not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what's happening on the outside.