Quotes By Lady Gaga

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.

My mom and I are very close.

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.

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.

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 don't think that women need to smell interesting.

I like black because it is a vacant space.

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 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.

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 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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.

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?'

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

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.

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.