I used to walk down the street like I was a fucking star... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth. - Lady Gaga
I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I love what I do. I believe in the message. There's no stopping. I didn't create the fame, the fame created me. - Lady Gaga
All that ever holds somebody back, I think, is fear. For a minute I had fear. [Then] I went into the [dressing] room and shot my fear in the face... - Lady Gaga
A girl’s got to use what she’s given and I’m not going to make a guy drool the way a Britney video does. So I take it to extremes. I don’t say I dress sexily on stage - what I do is so extreme. It’s meant to make guys think: ‘I don’t know if this is sexy or just weird. - Lady Gaga
I remember watching the mascara tears flood the ivories and I thought, "It's OK to be sad." I've been trained to love my darkness. - Lady Gaga
It's cooler to be strong. - Lady Gaga
Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you. - Lady Gaga
When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time. - Lady Gaga
This is who the fuck I am. - Lady Gaga
It's always wrong to hate but it's never wrong to love. - Lady Gaga
Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy. - Lady Gaga
Its oke to be sad. I've been trained to love my darkness - Lady Gaga
Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it. - Lady Gaga
I had a boyfriend who told me I’d never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I’d fail. I said to him, ‘Someday, when we’re not together, you won’t be able to order a cup of coffee at the fucking deli without hearing or seeing me. - Lady Gaga
Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother fucker's reflection. - Lady Gaga
And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time. - Lady Gaga
If you don't have shadows, you're not in the light. - Lady Gaga
A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist - Lady Gaga
I want to change the pop world one sequin at a time. Artists tend to take themselves way too seriously and don't enjoy the fun of making an impact on culture. I just have a good time and sequins represent a good time. - Lady Gaga
It doesn't matter who you are, or where you come from, or how much money you've got in your pocket. You have your own destiny and your own life ahead of you. - Lady Gaga
Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it. - Lady Gaga
Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues. - Lady Gaga
My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me. - Lady Gaga
I think it's absolutely a blessing when you just know what your purpose is and your destiny. I don't think it's a curse at all. - Lady Gaga
As artists, we are eternally heartbroken. - Lady Gaga
I imagine many of my fans share a similarly chaotic feeling in their own lives. This album 'ARTPOP was written to make sense of that chaos. - Lady Gaga
We are not just Art for Michelangelo to carve, he can't rewrite the agro of my furied heart- 10/22/10 - Lady Gaga
A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I'd die for my fans. - Lady Gaga
Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anyway. - Lady Gaga
Don't be a drag.Just be a queen. - Lady Gaga
Do you know the feeling, when your heart is so hurt, that you could feel the blood dripping? - Lady Gaga
If you dont have any shadows you're not in the light - Lady Gaga
Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore. - Lady Gaga
Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care about anymore. - Lady Gaga
I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true - Lady Gaga
I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public. - Lady Gaga
Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body. - Lady Gaga
For being different, it’s easy. But to be unique, it’s a complicated thing. - Lady Gaga
So many will try to destroy me. So many, over and over, coming in periods of greatness. But in this period, I cannot be broken: GAGAKLEIN. - Lady Gaga
The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate against all forms of discrimination + prejudice. - Lady Gaga
Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner. - Lady Gaga
My new album that I'm creating, which is finished pretty much, was written with this new instinctual energy that I've developed getting to know my fans. They protect me, so now it's my destiny to protect them. - Lady Gaga
I'm a little bit naked, but that's okay. - Lady Gaga
I'm already crazy. I'm a fearless person. I think it creeps up on you. I don't think it can be stopped. If my destiny is to lose my mind because of fame, then that's my destiny. But my passion still means more than anything. - Lady Gaga