Lady Gaga

“Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.”

“Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body.”

“I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.”

“This is who the fuck I am.”

“Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it.”

“I had a boyfriend who told me I’d never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I’d fail. I said to him, ‘Someday, when we’re not together, you won’t be able to order a cup of coffee at the fucking deli without hearing or seeing me.”

“Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother fucker's reflection.”

“There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.”

“Don't say I hate institutionalised religion - rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I'm saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.”

“I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.”

“I love my daddy. My daddy's everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.”

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

“The fashion I've acquired over the years is so sacred to me - from costumes to couture, high fashion to punk wear I've collected from my secret international hot spots. I keep everything in an enormous archive in Hollywood.”

“Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That's the upside to things getting challenging.”

“A girl’s got to use what she’s given and I’m not going to make a guy drool the way a Britney video does. So I take it to extremes. I don’t say I dress sexily on stage - what I do is so extreme. It’s meant to make guys think: ‘I don’t know if this is sexy or just weird.”

“I believe in a passion for inclusion.”

“I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.”

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

“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 know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.”

“I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?”

“I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.”

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

“Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.”

“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.”

“I wouldn't say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.”

“I think what's important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.”

“None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction - they're always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.”

“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.”

“It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.”

“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.”

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

“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 hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.”

“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.”

“Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.”

“I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.”

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

“I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.”

“The reason that I'm here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That's my truth.”

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

“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 kno...”

“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 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 tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.”

“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.”

“Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We're very different. I wouldn't make that comparison at all, and I don't mean to disrespect Madonna: she's a nice lady, and she's had a fantastic, huge career - biggest pop star of all time.”

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

“I've worked since I was a five-year-old to be a performer.”

“I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws.”

“I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.”

“Joanne' is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.”

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

“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.”

“Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.”

“I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga, they said I was very theatrical and they said, 'You're Gaga'.”

“When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.”

“In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.”

“Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.”

“I don't think I could think of a single thing that's more isolating than being famous.”

“I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.”

“I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.”

“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.”

“The dieting wars have got to stop.”

“I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.”

“I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.”

“What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.”

“I miss people. I miss going anywhere and meeting a random person and saying 'Hi' and having a conversation about life. I love people.”

“I don't know if I'm selfless - I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that's not completely selfless. But the truth is I'm not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That's always been how I...”

“I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.”

“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.”

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