Lady Gaga Quotes

I'm perpetually lonely.

It's hard to be strong and be weak at the same time. So I spent a lot of time sitting still. Sitting still for hours, not moving a muscle. Really concentrated work, so I'm ready. I'm ready for my performance.

I’m not a vomit in the club kinda girl.

I think it's absolutely a blessing when you just know what your purpose is and your destiny. I don't think it's a curse at all.

My fashion is my most prized possession for two reasons: 1) because it is a visualization of all the hard work I've put in to get where I am today; 2) because it is a legend to the encyclopedia of my life. It is exactly what I've aimed to seep into the artistic consciousness of people all over the world - that life is an art form.

I do not have to be high to be great. I do not have to be drunk to have a good idea. I can sit with my thoughts and not feel crazy. I can do it... I can do it without the dope.

I don't dress any particular way to impress anyone or market myself for my music. It's actually who I am.

No matter gay, straight or bi, lesbian, transgendered life, I'm on the right track baby I was born to survive.

Don't be insecure, if your heart is pure

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

Fight and push harder for what you believe in, you'd be surprised, you are much stronger than you think.

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

When I die, they'll say Lady Gaga was special but her fans, her Monsters, they were really something

I like pushing boundaries.

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.

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

Leather, high heels, and a bad attitude. Here I come.

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

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

Pop music will never be low brow.

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 can't even drive a car. I don't have a driver's license. I have a rented apartment in New York. That's it. When I travel, I have almost all of my possessions with me. That's how little I own.

My mother always wanted to give back.

My father [Joe Germanotta] 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.

We wanted to make something that sounded perfect because of the quality of the emotion...the honesty.

Basically I can't sleep without every single song I'm writing repeating endlessly, but I'm loving it again. Embracing the torture, as I'm assaulted by my own thoughts. Like a locust giving birth to earworms. Eeeeew!

I started out playing in clubs. I always like existing under ground and over ground at the same time.

I'm always on the market for a new friend, period. As your success continues to grow, you start to see who your real friends are. But I'm always looking for wonderful people to have in my life that have no agenda and aren't fake friends.

I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

The statement is that I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time.

My mama told me when I was young we're all born SUPERSTARS!

Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.

An artist is the only thing I want to be. I only want my freedom and my creativity. It's all that I live for. I reject the idea that I have to take all the costumes and makeup off to be f - king authentic.

If I can be a leader, I will.

My fashion is part of who I am, and though I was not born with these clothes on, I was born this way.

Russian Roulette is not the same without a gun

I have to be really honest: People who say they can't escape the paparazzi are full of sh*t. Let me just be the artist to throw everybody under the bus. I don't spend lots of money on houses or lots of cars, but I do spend money on security and they never find me.

I already am a product.

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.

And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.

I had a boyfriend who told me I'd never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I'd fail. I said to him, 'Someday, when we're not together, you won't be able to order a cup of coffee at the f***** deli without hearing or seeing me.'

A year from now, I could go away, and people might say, 'Gosh, what ever happened to that girl who never wore pants?' But how wonderfully memorable 30 years from now, when they say, 'Do you remember Gaga and her bubbles?' Because, for a minute, everybody in that room will forget every sad, painful thing in their lives, and they'll just live in my bubble world.

Glam culture is ultimately rooted in obsession, and those of us who are truly devoted and loyal to the lifestyle of glamour are masters of its history. Or, to put it more elegantly, we are librarians.

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

I'm inspired by fashion. I'm inspired by the moonlight. I'm inspired by sex and pornography and slasher films.

They say that this country is free, and they say that this country is equal, but it is not equal if it's 'sometimes'...We need change now. We demand actions now.

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.

It's not really cool any more to have sex all the time. It's cooler to be strong and independent.