94 Quotes & Sayings By 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

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

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

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

And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time. 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

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

Don't be a drag. Just be a queen. 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'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

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

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

We are not just Art for Michelangelo to carve, he can't rewrite the agro of my furied heart- Lady Gaga 10/22/10 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

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

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

Every year when i travel around the world, i wonder if it’ll be diferent, maybe one year won’t come to the show or you’ll be less festival, but what i realized during ARTPOP is that we belong together and some stories have no end. I will follow you around the world as long as you’ll have me because i love making music, i love making art and i love, love meeting all you beautiful, creative people“. Lady Gaga

Its oke to be sad. I've been trained to love my darkness Lady Gaga

It's cooler to be strong. Lady Gaga

Clinical psychology tells us arguably that trauma is the ultimate killer. Memories r not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics. they can be lost forever. It’s sort of like my past is an unfinished painting and as the artist of that painting, I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again. Lady Gaga

Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy. 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

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

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

For being different, it’s easy. But to be unique, it’s a complicated thing. Lady Gaga

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

Do you know the feeling, when your heart is so hurt, that you could feel the blood dripping? Lady Gaga

It's always wrong to hate but it's never wrong to love. Lady Gaga

If you don't have shadows, you're not in the light. 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

As artists, we are eternally heartbroken. Lady Gaga

Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are. Lady Gaga

Being gay is like glitter, it never goes away. Lady Gaga

I've always been famous, it's just no one knew it yet. 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

Take my picture Hollywood. I wanna be STAR Lady Gaga

‎Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses, cuz we were born this way bitch! Lady Gaga

You have to stop crying, and you have to go kick some ass. Lady Gaga

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it. Lady Gaga

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

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. Lady Gaga

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

I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving. Lady Gaga

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. Lady Gaga

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

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world. Lady Gaga

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. Lady Gaga

I like black because it is a vacant space. Lady Gaga

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

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. Lady Gaga

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. Lady Gaga

Joanne' is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous. Lady Gaga

In terms of my involvement in 'don't ask, don't tell' and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools - these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans. Lady Gaga

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness. Lady Gaga

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us. Lady Gaga

I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music... Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time - the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music. Lady Gaga

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?' Lady Gaga

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

I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way. Lady Gaga

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. Lady Gaga

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

The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car. Lady Gaga

I'm really happy and had such an amazing time performing at Super Bowl - wish I could relive it all over again. Lady Gaga

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. Lady Gaga

The dieting wars have got to stop. Lady Gaga

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly. Lady Gaga

Gay marriage is going to happen. It must. Lady Gaga

When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship. Lady Gaga

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. Lady Gaga

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad. Lady Gaga

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they'll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad's restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you. Lady Gaga

My mom and I are very close. Lady Gaga

No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off. Lady Gaga

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid. Lady Gaga

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

I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one. Lady Gaga

As soon as I go out into the world, I belong, in a way, to everyone else. It's legal to follow me. It's legal to stalk me at the beach. And I can't call the police or ask them to leave. Lady Gaga

I am the center of attention in my job every single day the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that? Lady Gaga

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. Lady Gaga

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

Making your dad happy is - especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I'll tell you - it feels really good. Lady Gaga