Lady Gaga Quotes

I like pushing boundaries.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

I don’t see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way – artistically.

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.

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

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

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

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don’t really know me at all.

When I’m making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.

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

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you – when life opens that door for you, I should say – I think it’s important to be giving, to return the love back.

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That’s the upside to things getting challenging.

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.

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.

I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we’ve all heard about before.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

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.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

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 don’t like talking to celebrities.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history… this is what makes you strong. It’s not looking out that’s going to do that – it’s looking in.

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

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.

My next baby will be my new record.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

Making your dad happy is – especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I’ll tell you – it feels really good.

I love imperfections.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

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.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

I’ve worked since I was a five-year-old to be a performer.

I don’t want to make niche-oriented music.

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 shouldn’t have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.

I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

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

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

I’m not a sandwich store that only sells turkey sandwiches. I sell a lot of different things.

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

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.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

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.

I’m not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.

I feel like if you’re a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.

I want to – more than anything – to create a moment that people will never forget. Not for me, but for themselves. That’s what I remember about great Super Bowl performances in the past, when you really get lost in the moment with your family.

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

Pop music will never be low brow.

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 have never had plastic surgery, and there are many pop singers who have.

My records are borderline dance records. They’ve got a real electro-rock heart and soul, and the vibe of the sentiment is pop, but there’s a lot of people that were like, ‘This is a dance record.’

I’m working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.

I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification.

Don’t say I hate institutionalised religion – rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I’m saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

I wouldn’t say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

I don’t like celebrities; I don’t hang out with them; I don’t relate to that life.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

I just want to keep writing music.

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.

I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn’t make me feel good at all.

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.

When people say ‘marriage’ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.

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

I don’t think I could think of a single thing that’s more isolating than being famous.

I don’t like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

I just genuinely feel that that’s what you do when you’re an artist: You stick up for the people around you.

The kindness that’s been shown to me, by doctors as well as my family and my friends, it’s really saved my life.

I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I’m a producer. I’m a writer.

I’m very free-spirited.

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 love my daddy. My daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

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

My mother always wanted to give back.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction – they’re always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

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

I’m not a supermodel. That’s not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what’s happening on the outside.

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

I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.

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

If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

I’ve had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year’s worth of rent.

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’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.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

Sometimes I think that there’s a fine line between impressionistic and messy.

My father opened a restaurant. It’s so amazing… it’s so freaking delicious, but I’m telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.

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

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

How I love David Bowie.

I don’t know if I’m selfless – I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that’s not completely selfless. But the truth is I’m not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That’s always been how I am.

The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.

I don’t know if it’s changing already with ‘Joanne,’ but my intention is to bring people together that don’t know each other and that would maybe feel awkward, but somehow be brought together by the music. That’s what I wanted to do. Because that is pure and authentic to my family history and what I stand for.

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

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.

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

It’s an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.

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. That is what we do.

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 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 think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.

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

I’ve had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

I don’t like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

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

I was always trying – I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

The fashion I’ve acquired over the years is so sacred to me – from costumes to couture, high fashion to punk wear I’ve collected from my secret international hot spots. I keep everything in an enormous archive in Hollywood.

I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.