Lady Gaga Quotations

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn't make me feel good at all.

'Born this Way' is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

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'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 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 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 am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.

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.

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 am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

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.

I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference.

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 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.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.

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 think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification.

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.

Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

Being beautiful is not so fun when you're in a business with all men.

I wouldn't say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.

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.

Then, when I'm in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it's all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

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.

Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times.

You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.

The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

I have never had plastic surgery, and there are many pop singers who have.

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.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.

Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.

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.

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'm not a sandwich store that only sells turkey sandwiches. I sell a lot of different things.

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.

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 do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.

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.

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.

It's honestly true that money means nothing to me.

I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?

I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.

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.

Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.

A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

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 live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

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.

Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what's underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don't think it ever will be.

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

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.

So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.

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 just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

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 want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.

I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.

I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.

Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life.

I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.

Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

You think I'm going to ask these sweet 14 year olds to ask their parents to buy a $100 ticket then run around in latex and lip sync? No way.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

I live in Hollywood, but you can't make me love Hollywood. I'll never love Hollywood.

I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we've all heard about before.

I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.

I was so ashamed of who I was.

I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It's best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

I've worked since I was a five-year-old to be a performer.

In case you're wondering whether I lip synch, the answer is no... people think so because I sound so good.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope... It is not a reflection of all religious people.

I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.

I love my friends and my past, and it's made me who I am.

I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

My records are borderline dance records. They've got a real electro-rock heart and soul, and the vibe of the sentiment is pop, but there's a lot of people that were like, 'This is a dance record.'

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.

In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.

I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.

My apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage - they're just not stages you're allowed to see.

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.

I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

We are not actually equal - humanity - if we are not allowed to freely love one another.