Quotes By Lady Gaga

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.

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 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 love imperfections.

Love is an interesting thing.

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 was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

I don't like talking to celebrities.

I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.

You think I'm going to ask these sweet 14 year olds to ask their parents to buy a $100 ticket then run around in latex and lip sync? No way.

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.

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

I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.

I just want to keep writing music.

My mom and I are very close.

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

I like black because it is a vacant space.

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

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

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

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 don't think that women need to smell interesting.

I was so ashamed of who I was.

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

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 hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference.

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