Top 554 Quotes & Sayings by Lady Gaga - Page 3

I'm drawn to bad romances.

A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

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.

Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.

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

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

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 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.

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.

I like black because it is a vacant space.

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

I'm perpetually lonely.

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.

My mom and I are very close.

That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

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

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

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 always say, you gotta play a dive bar like you play an arena, and you play an arena like you play a dive bar.

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

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 very free-spirited.

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.

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

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

I don't care about money.

How I love David Bowie.

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

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.

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 talking to celebrities.

People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.

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.

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.

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

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

Love is an interesting thing.

My mother always wanted to give back.

I was so ashamed of who I was.

I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

I like pushing boundaries.

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

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

I'm a wandering gypsy.

No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it's pretty intense.

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

Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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