Lady Gaga Quotes

You may never reach that glorious moment until you die, so live life on the edge halfway between heaven and hell...and let's all dance in the middle in purgatory.

All that ever holds somebody back, I think, is fear. For a minute I had fear. [Then] I went into the [dressing] room and shot my fear in the face.

I want you to walk out of here tonight not loving me more, but loving yourselves more.

Pop music will never be low brow.

A glamorous life is quite different to a life of luxury. I don’t need luxury. For years, I was practically broke but I was still very vain and glamorous. And I still am.

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

Sexuality is half poison and half liberation. What’s the line? I don’t have a line.

I’d rather be poor and happy than rich and alone.

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

You are equally important to me, and I love you all.

I live between fantasy and reality at all times. In that way, I’m a librarian.

There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

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

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.

It's not that I don't like pants, I just choose not to wear them some days.

I never care personally what people say about me. The music, and the message - this will always be more important to me than people thinking I'm the best.

I think that once you've had a few No. 1s in your career that you've kind of proven yourself and I don't feel the need to prove anything anymore.

I've made it my goal to revolutionise pop music.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

My apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage - they're just not stages you're allowed to see.

The real cake isn't HAVING what you want, it's DOING what you want

I think it's absolutely a blessing when you just know what your purpose is and your destiny. I don't think it's a curse at all.

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.

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.'

Don't judge anyone but don't trust anyone.

I like pushing boundaries.

I'm not a feminist. I hail men, I love men. I celebrate American male culture, and beer, and bars and muscle cars.

I have never had plastic surgery, and there are many pop singers who have.

I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.

I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.

There's something about lonely nights and my lipstick on your face

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

If love is a sin, live a lie. You and Me, until I die.

I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

Look to yourself for the answer - stop calling your girlfriends and stop calling your mom - you know if it's working or not, you either feel like a goddess or you don't

I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don't live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.

Music and visual performance have to influence each other. Designers and musicians have to be the nexus of all things pop culture, so I think about designers when I'm making music.

There's no way to convince people of your greatness. Whatever it is that you want to be, you have to know it inside and knife-fight your way to your dream.

I think that fashion and music go hand-in-hand, and they always should. It's the artist's job to create imagery that matches the music. I think they're very intertwined.

I started out playing in clubs. I always like existing under ground and over ground at the same time.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

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.

Leather, high heels, and a bad attitude. Here I come.

How I love David Bowie.

I'm perpetually lonely.

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

Put your hands up and cheer for yourselves! You are strong, you are brave, you are confident, and I f*ing love you, Israel.

Why spend your whole life trying to be somebody that you're not? It's so much more fun to be yourself **** what everybody says.

You can’t stop my voice cause You don't own my life but Do what you want (with my body)