Lady Gaga's Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

Love is an interesting thing.

No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it's pretty intense.

People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.

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

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.

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

How I love David Bowie.

I already am a product.

I don't care about money.

I don't think that women need to smell interesting.

I don't want to make niche-oriented music.

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

I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

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

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

I just want to keep writing music.

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

I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff.

I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.

I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.

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

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

I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.

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 was so ashamed of who I was.

I write music every day.

I'm a wandering gypsy.

I'm an inventor.

I'm drawn to bad romances.

I'm not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.

I'm perpetually lonely.

I'm very free-spirited.

I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.

If you don't feel safe as a child, you can't learn.

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

My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I'm very protective.

My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.

My mom and I are very close.

My mother always wanted to give back.

My next baby will be my new record.

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

Pop music will never be low brow.

Pop stars should not eat.

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

Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.

That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.

The dieting wars have got to stop.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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 you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

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.

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 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.

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.

To this day, some of my closest friends say, 'Gaga, you know, everything's great. You're a singer; your dreams have come true.' But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you're growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they're true.

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.

I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.

I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.

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.

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.