I know people said I wasn't selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you're talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.
— Lady Gaga
My next baby will be my new record.
We are not actually equal - humanity - if we are not allowed to freely love one another.
My apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage - they're just not stages you're allowed to see.
I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.
If you don't feel safe as a child, you can't learn.
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 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.
My mom and I are very close.
My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.
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.
Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.
You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.
It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.
I don't like talking to celebrities.
I don't think that women need to smell interesting.
I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
I think that once you've had a few No. 1s in your career that you've kind of proven yourself, and I don't feel the need to prove anything anymore.
I just want to keep writing music.
Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.
My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I'm very protective.
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 was so ashamed of who I was.
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.
I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
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.
The dieting wars have got to stop.
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.
The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.
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 just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.
I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.
Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.
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.
I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.
I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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.
There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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.
I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.
I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
My mother always wanted to give back.
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?'
Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life.
I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.
I like black because it is a vacant space.
I'm a wandering gypsy.
I already am a product.
Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.
