Quotes By Lady Gaga

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'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.

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.

In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.

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.

I'm a wandering gypsy.

When the whole world has their eyes on you, if you say something that doesn't truly come from your spirit and your soul, or if you wear something that doesn't come from your spirit and your soul, it's an injustice to your position. And so, I'm really myself every single day and I do it because I know my fans would want me to.

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 feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.

Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.

I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.

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.

There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

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.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

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

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

I like pushing boundaries.

It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

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

My mother always wanted to give back.

I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga, they said I was very theatrical and they said, 'You're Gaga'.

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.