Quotes By Lady Gaga

Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.

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 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.'

I don't like talking to celebrities.

I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.

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.

Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life.

I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.

My mom and I are very close.

I like black because it is a vacant space.

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.

Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.

I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don't live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.

I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.

I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

Pop music will never be low brow.

I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.

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 was so ashamed of who I was.

I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.

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 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'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.

I 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.

I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.

When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.

I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.