Quotes By Lady Gaga

What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.

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

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 don't think that women need to smell interesting.

I like black because it is a vacant space.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

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.

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.