Lady Gaga Quotes

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

Money can run out but talent is forever

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.

Writing a record is like dating a few men at once. You take them to the same restaurants to see if they measure up, and at some point you decide who you like best.

I'd rather people love me or hate me than have no opinion of me. Indifference is scary.

I want women -- and men -- to feel empowered by a deeper and more psychotic part of themselves. The part they're always trying desperately to hide. I want that to become something that they cherish.

In my show I announce, 'People say Lady Gaga is a lie, and they are right. I am a lie. And every day I kill to make it true.'

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.

The whole point of what I do - the monster ball, the music, the performance art aspect of it, I wanna create a space for my fans where they can feel free and they can celebrate because I didn't fit in in high school and I felt like a freak, so I like to create this atmosphere for my fans where they feel like they have a freak in me to hang out with and they don't feel alone.

Why spend your whole life trying to be somebody that you're not? It's so much more fun to be yourself **** what everybody says.

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

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

I take medication every day for mental illness and depression and don't feel bad about it.

Don't say I hate institutionalised religion - rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I'm saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

I'm able to laugh now, because I've gone through a lot of mental and physical therapy to heal over the years, my music's been wonderful for me. But I was a shell of my former self at one point. I was not myself. To be fair, I was about 19, so ... I went to Catholic school and all this crazy stuff happened, and I was going, 'Oh, is this just the way adults are?' I was very naive.

Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me!

Celebrate all the things you don't like about yourself. love yourself.

Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.

Prejudice is a disease. So is fashion. But I will not wear prejudice.

I don't wanna be alone forever but I can be tonight.

Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.

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

There's this idea that it's all natural, but everything's been staged to look natural. It is also an invention. It's just that my inventions are different. I often get asked about my artifice, but isn't fashion based on the idea that we can create a fantasy?

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. The clothes are on mannequins, also on hangers and in boxes with a photo of each piece, and there's a Web site where I can go to look through everything. It's too big - I could never sort through it myself! But these garments tell the stories of my life.

The way that I sing, what I sing about, what I wear, who I am, this is me. I was born this way.

Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.

I dont really ever compare myself to other people, I dont even measure myself in terms of anyone but myself.

I don't view interviewing as much of a performance. My whole life is in essence a performance but singing and dancing for television is an entirely different thing.

You have to be unique, and different, and shine in your own way.

As artists, we are eternally heartbroken.

Some women chasing men, and some - for dreams. If you are at a fork, remember, your career will not wake up one morning to say that more does not love you.

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.

Watch very closely as the magical angel and I are swallowed by the rainbow twister, and left stranded on the glitter way.

I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.

If you dont have any shadows you're not in the light

Hair is about when you're younger. I am my hair.

The dieting wars have got to stop.

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

I want you to forget all your insecurities. I want you to reject anyone of anything that's ever made you feel like you don't belong or don't fit in or made you fell like you're not good enough or pretty enough or thin enough or can't sing well enough or dance well enough or write a song well enough or like you'll never win a Grammy or you'll never sell out Madison Square Garden, you just remember that you're a goddamn superstar and you were born this way!

I’ve had enough, this is my prayer, that I’ll die living just as free as my hair.

I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public.

Being different is a talent. You illuminate what makes you special in the sea of sameness around you.

I started when I was really young. I was playing classical music when I was 4 and when I turned 11 I started to write pop music. I guess you could say it was my intellectual evolution and my love of music began to change.

I don't need to be on top to know I'm worth it

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

You define beauty for yourself, society doesn’t define your beauty. Your spirit and your faith defines your beauty.

I hate the truth so much that i'd rather have a giant dose of bulls**t anyday

I adored Freddie Mercury and Queen had a hit called Radio Gaga. That's why I love the name. Freddie was unique - one of the biggest personalities in the whole of pop music. He was not only a singer but also a fantastic performer, a man of the theatre and someone who constantly transformed himself. In short: a genius.