Quotes By Lady Gaga

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.

I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

I'm very free-spirited.

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

I already am a product.

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

I don't like L.A. It's just not fun. I don't know why, but I just don't get it. You have to drive to get everywhere, and when it rains everybody freaks out.

I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.

I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.

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

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

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.

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

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.

I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.

I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

Pop stars should not eat.

I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

I'm drawn to bad romances.

I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don't live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.

My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I'm very protective.