I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.
— Lady Gaga
I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.
I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.
I'm perpetually lonely.
When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.
I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.
Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.
When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.
I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.
How I love David Bowie.
Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times.
You think I'm going to ask these sweet 14 year olds to ask their parents to buy a $100 ticket then run around in latex and lip sync? No way.
I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference.
I have never had plastic surgery, and there are many pop singers who have.
I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff.
In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.
Love is an interesting thing.
I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.
I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.
I 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.'
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.
I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.
I try to not focus on what people expect from me.
I write music every day.
I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.
I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.
People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.
I don't like L.A. It's just not fun. I don't know why, but I just don't get it. You have to drive to get everywhere, and when it rains everybody freaks out.
I'm an inventor.
Pop music will never be low brow.
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.
I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.
I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.
I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.
I'm drawn to bad romances.
I don't want to make niche-oriented music.
I'm very free-spirited.
Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.
You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.
I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.
I love imperfections.
Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.
I'm not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.
I don't care about money.
I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.
I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.
I 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.
