Lady Gaga quotes and sayings

Musician | Born: March 28, 1986

I don't consider my own clothing to be outrageous... The truth is that people just don't have the same references that I do. To me it's very beautiful and it's art, and to them it's outrageous and crazy.

Lady Gaga motivational quote : I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

If you're a strong female you don't need permission.

I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga, they said I was very theatrical and they said, 'You're Gaga'.

They're not prosthetics. They're my bones. They come out when I'm inspired. They've always been inside of me, but I have been waiting for the right time to reveal to the universe who I truly am.

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

Lady Gaga motivational quote : I realized my father's sister Joanne, who died at 19 had instilled her spirit in me.

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.

I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws.

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

It is fair to write about the change in your magazines. But what I want to see is the change on your covers ... When the covers change, that's when culture changes.

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.

There is nothing Holy about hatred.

People ask me why I wear veils. I reply, I am mourning. Mourning what? Well I figure something shitty must be going on somewhere.

People that are obsessed with hating you, feel flattered. Their whole lives revolve around you.

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.

Lady Gaga motivational quote : 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'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It's best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

In case you're wondering whether I lip synch, the answer is no... people think so because I sound so good.

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

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

Then, when I'm in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it's all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

Lady Gaga motivational quote : 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 would rather die than have my fans see me without a pair of heels on. And that's show business.

Being different is a talent. You illuminate what makes you special in the sea of sameness around you.

Being a woman in the pop world, sexuality is half poison and half liberation. What's the line? I don't have a line. I am the most sexually free woman on the planet, and I genuinely am empowered from a very honest place by my sexuality. What's more primal than sex? I mean, it's so honest. If I didn't think I had the talent to back that up, I wouldn't have done it.

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.

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 not a vomit in the club kinda girl.

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.

If you're laying in bed next to someone that really doesn't make you feel like the goddess that you are, you need to rediscover what it is that you truly want and need.

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

Lady Gaga motivational quote : Never be afraid to be kicked in the teeth. Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.

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

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

My mom and I are very close.

You can't stop my voice cause You don't own my life but Do what you want.

Lady Gaga motivational quote : Some of you will stay with me forever, but some of you ... WILL BETRAY ME.

The whole point of what I do - the monster ball, the music, the performance art aspect of it, I wanna create a space for my fans where they can feel free and they can celebrate because I didn't fit in in high school and I felt like a freak, so I like to create this atmosphere for my fans where they feel like they have a freak in me to hang out with and they don't feel alone.

I don't care what people think about me, I care what they think about themselves.

I've learned love is like a brick, you can build a house or sink a dead body.

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'd rather people love me or hate me than have no opinion of me. Indifference is scary.

When you wanna do something and that little impulse goes off in your brain and says "Ooh, don't do it!", you gotta go for it. That's how you're gonna be the person you wanna be.

Only I can snatch my own weave.

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. The clothes are on mannequins, also on hangers and in boxes with a photo of each piece, and there's a Web site where I can go to look through everything. It's too big - I could never sort through it myself! But these garments tell the stories of my life.

In fact, the Alejandro video...is a celebration of my love and appreciation for the gay community, my admiration of their bravery, and their love for one another, their courage in their relationships.

Lady Gaga motivational quote : I'm terrified of babies I think, creatively as a woman, you change once you give birth. I'm totally not ready for that.

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.

I'm drawn to bad romances.

There is a strong possibility I will release another volume of ARTPOP and I'm really hoping that it's soon.

Im not a wandering slave, I am a woman of choice.

Lady Gaga motivational quote : The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theater 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.

Art is life, life is art - the question is what came first?

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.

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.

I feel that flip-flops are the downfall of many relationships. It's, like, first it's the flip-flops, and then it's the sweatpants...it's the gateway drug to no sex.

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.

You're love is nothing I can't fight. Can't sleep with a man who dims my shine.

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

Heidi Montag's a far more talented artist. Personally, I think Lady Gaga is repulsive and classless.

I have to be really honest: People who say they can't escape the paparazzi are full of sh*t. Let me just be the artist to throw everybody under the bus. I don't spend lots of money on houses or lots of cars, but I do spend money on security and they never find me.

Lady Gaga motivational quote : I want you to walk out of here tonight not loving me more, but loving yourselves more.

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

My father Joe Germanotta 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 don't view myself as outrageous - that's not the intention. Its to be more and more original.

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

Lady Gaga motivational quote : I'm not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.

I'm able to laugh now, because I've gone through a lot of mental and physical therapy to heal over the years, my music's been wonderful for me. But I was a shell of my former self at one point. I was not myself. To be fair, I was about 19, so ... I went to Catholic school and all this crazy stuff happened, and I was going, 'Oh, is this just the way adults are?' I was very naive.

A year from now, I could go away, and people might say, 'Gosh, what ever happened to that girl who never wore pants?' But how wonderfully memorable 30 years from now, when they say, 'Do you remember Gaga and her bubbles?' Because, for a minute, everybody in that room will forget every sad, painful thing in their lives, and they'll just live in my bubble world.

People will always talk, so lets give them sumthin to talk about.

I'm terrified of therapy because I don't want it to mess with my creativity.

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.

I don't want to be remembered as anything but brave. The only good intention to make money is to help others. I want to be Oprah. I want to be Melinda Gates. If I ever sell products other than my talents, then it will be to give more to others.

Applause was designed to bemuse and confuse you until it explodes into a chorus that reminds us why we love pop music.

I'm a wandering gypsy.

I'm always on the market for a new friend, period. As your success continues to grow, you start to see who your real friends are. But I'm always looking for wonderful people to have in my life that have no agenda and aren't fake friends.

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 motivational quote : I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.

It's not really cool any more to have sex all the time. It's cooler to be strong and independent.

Everyone can access the parts of themselves that are great. I'm just a girl from New York City who decided to do this, after all. Rule the world! What's life worth living if you don't rule it?

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

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.

Lady Gaga motivational quote : To everyone who says this is wrong to feel like this say, 'I was born this way baby.

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

My next baby will be my new record.

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

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

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 f***** deli without hearing or seeing me.'.

Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it.

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

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.

Fame for me is not external, it's internal. So I've been famous for a long time.

Lady Gaga motivational quote : It takes time to become myself every morning.

I learned that my sadness never destroyed what was great about me. You just have to go back to that greatness, find that one little light that's left. I'm lucky I found one little glimmer stored away.

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.

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

Never bully anyone because Karma has everyone's address and a motherf**king stamp!

Lady Gaga motivational quote : I've made it my goal to revolutionise pop music.

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