Lady Gaga Quotes
"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."
- Lady Gaga
(Related: Awareness, Being, School)
"I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent."
- Lady Gaga
(Related: Worth)
"If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person."
- Lady Gaga
(Related: Being, Cause, Class, Friends, Talk)
"If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next."
- Lady Gaga
(Related: People, Greatness, Ability, Artist, Deep, Sense)
"In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny."
- Lady Gaga
(Related: Love, Sense)
"I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future."
- Lady Gaga
(Related: Film, Future)
"Pop stars should not eat."
- Lady Gaga
(Related: Stars)
"I like pushing boundaries."
- 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
(Related: Love, Work, Art, Music, Truth, Lie, Artist)
"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
(Related: Money, Celebrity, Famous)
"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."
- Lady Gaga
(Related: Soul, Day, Eyes, Fans, Injustice, Spirit, Want, World)
"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
(Related: Music, May, Party)
"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
(Related: Nature)
"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'."
- Lady Gaga
(Related: Friends)
"I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way."
- Lady Gaga
(Related: Reality, Theater)
"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
(Related: Music, Dream, Hope, Fun, Individuality, Want)
"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."
- Lady Gaga
(Related: Dream)
"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
(Related: Music, Family, Parents)
"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
(Related: People, Famous, Play, Will)
"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."
- Lady Gaga
(Related: Father, Job)
"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
(Related: Love, Art, Fans, Space, Trying, Want, World)
"'Born this Way' is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud."
- Lady Gaga
(Related: Being)
"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."
- Lady Gaga
(Related: Artist)
"So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool."
- Lady Gaga
(Related: Nothing, Provocative)
"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
(Related: Music, Nature, Work, People, Performance, Fact)
"Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all."
- Lady Gaga
(Related: Lady, Name)