Quotes By Lady Gaga

You think I'm going to ask these sweet 14 year olds to ask their parents to buy a $100 ticket then run around in latex and lip sync? No way.

I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

I don't like talking to celebrities.

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.

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.

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.

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.