Quotes By Lady Gaga

I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.

I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

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.

I already am a product.

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 try to not focus on what people expect from me.

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.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

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.

Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.

I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.

I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.

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

I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

Pop stars should not eat.

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

I'm drawn to bad romances.

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.

My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I'm very protective.

I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

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.

A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

I'm perpetually lonely.

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've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.

We are not actually equal - humanity - if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

Pop music will never be low brow.

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