Quotes By Lady Gaga

I already am a product.

I don't think that women need to smell interesting.

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

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I'm perpetually lonely.

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.

I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times.

A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.

I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.

We are not actually equal - humanity - if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

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.

So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.

When the whole world has their eyes on you, if you say something that doesn't truly come from your spirit and your soul, or if you wear something that doesn't come from your spirit and your soul, it's an injustice to your position. And so, I'm really myself every single day and I do it because I know my fans would want me to.

I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.

I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.

I'm a wandering gypsy.