Quotes By Lady Gaga

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I don't want to make niche-oriented music.

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

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

Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.

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

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

My next baby will be my new record.

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 love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff.

I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

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

The dieting wars have got to stop.

I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

How I love David Bowie.

I write music every day.

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

You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.

Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

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.

I'm very free-spirited.

I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.