Lady Gaga Quotes

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.

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

The dieting wars have got to stop.

I don’t care about money.

My apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage – they’re just not stages you’re allowed to see.

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

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

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 hope when I’m dead I’ll be considered an icon, though.

I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.

I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.

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.

When I heard ‚Jesus, Take the Wheel,‘ I was like, OK. Some people look at it as a song written for an American Idol, Carrie Underwood, who is wonderful. But when you’re a songwriter listening to a song, you hear something else. I heard that song, and wow.

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

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.

I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.

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

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

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

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

Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don’t really know me at all.

I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don’t live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.

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

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

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

Whether I’m wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I’m always the same person inside.

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

I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent’s house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

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

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, ‚cause I’m very smart.

Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We’re very different. I wouldn’t make that comparison at all, and I don’t mean to disrespect Madonna: she’s a nice lady, and she’s had a fantastic, huge career – biggest pop star of all time.

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.

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 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.

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 don’t know that you can put a label on growth. I’m just me.

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

Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.

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?

I’m very free-spirited.

I like pushing boundaries.

I’m perpetually lonely.

Meditation helps me to calm down.

Love is an interesting thing.

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

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.

Pop music will never be low brow.

I’m drawn to bad romances.

I like black because it is a vacant space.

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

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.

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 was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.

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.

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

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.

If you only believe that you’re an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that’s quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

If you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.