“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.” –Lady Gaga
“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.” –Lady Gaga
“So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.” –Lady Gaga
“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.” –Lady Gaga
“In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'” –Lady Gaga
“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.” –Lady Gaga
“I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.” –Lady Gaga
“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.” –Lady Gaga
“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.” –Lady Gaga
“I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.” –Lady Gaga
“It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.” –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.” –Lady Gaga
“I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.” –Lady Gaga
“I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.” –Lady Gaga
“I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.” –Lady Gaga
“I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.” –Lady Gaga
“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.” –Lady Gaga
“Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.” –Lady Gaga
“My mom and I are very close.” –Lady Gaga
“You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.” –Lady Gaga
“I don't want to make money I want to make a difference.” –Lady Gaga
“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.” –Lady Gaga
“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.” –Lady Gaga
“I don't care about money.” –Lady Gaga
“When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.” –Lady Gaga
“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.” –Lady Gaga
“I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.” –Lady Gaga
“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.” –Lady Gaga
“I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.” –Lady Gaga
“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.” –Lady Gaga
“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.” –Lady Gaga
“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.” –Lady Gaga
“Pop music will never be low brow.” –Lady Gaga
“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.” –Lady Gaga
“I write music every day.” –Lady Gaga
“I don't want to make niche-oriented music.” –Lady Gaga
“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.'” –Lady Gaga
“I just want to keep writing music.” –Lady Gaga
“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.” –Lady Gaga
“I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.” –Lady Gaga