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.
Lady GagaI 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.
Lady GagaTogether we hope to establish a standard of Bravery and Kindness, as well as a community worldwide that protects and nurtures others in the face of bullying and abandonment.
Lady GagaSo many will try to destroy me. So many, over and over, coming in periods of greatness. But in this period, I cannot be broken: GAGAKLEIN.
Lady GagaAll that ever holds somebody back, I think, is fear. For a minute I had fear. [Then] I went into the [dressing] room and shot my fear in the face.
Lady GagaClinical psychology tells us arguably that trauma is the ultimate killer.Memories r not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics. they can be lost forever. Itโs sort of like my past is an unfinished painting and as the artist of that painting,I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again.
Lady GagaOnly value the opinion of those that you respect. And anyone that you donโt respect, pay no mind to their opinion about you or anything else.
Lady GagaDo you know the feeling, when your heart is so hurt, that you could feel the blood dripping?
Lady GagaIโm not going to start churning out what you expect. If you want me to be a manufactured act, you can f*** off.
Lady GagaI just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.
Lady GagaI believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place.
Lady GagaI 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.'
Lady GagaI'm not a feminist. I hail men, I love men. I celebrate American male culture, and beer, and bars and muscle cars.
Lady GagaIt 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.
Lady GagaSome artists want your money so they can buy Range Rovers and diamond bracelets, but I don't care about that kind of stuff. I want your soul.
Lady GagaAnd don't worry, if I get thrown in jail in Manila, Beyonce will just bail me out. Sold out night 2 in the Philippines. I love it here!
Lady GagaI 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.
Lady GagaI am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer, and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.
Lady GagaPeople that are obsessed with hating you, feel flattered. Their whole lives revolve around you.
Lady GagaI 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.
Lady GagaMy apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage - they're just not stages you're allowed to see.
Lady GagaIts OK to be weird. And maybe your weird is my normal. Whos to say? I think its an attitude.
Lady GagaWell, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it.
Lady GagaI 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.
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