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 need to be on top to know I'm worth it

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

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

I study everything that I do to become better all the time at my craft. The beauty for me about being an artist is that the dream will never die because I'm not obsessed with material things and don't care about the money and don't care about the attention of the public but only the love of my fans. For me it's about keeping the dream alive of how much more devoted, how much more honest, how much better of an artist can I become? That's the only fear that I ever have, that the dream will die.

There is no oil so thick as to destroy the imagination.

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