Quotes By Lady Gaga

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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 just want to keep writing music.

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.

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

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.

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'm very free-spirited.

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

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.