Top 141 Lady Gaga Quotes

As soon as I go out into the world, I belong, in a way, to everyone else. It’s legal to follow me. It’s legal to stalk me at the beach. And I can’t call the police or ask them to leave.

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

If I can be a leader, I will.

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

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

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

At the end of the day, who I really and truly am is a little girl who loved to play the piano.

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 guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.

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’.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 don’t like talking to celebrities.

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.

I was very depressed when I was 19… I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.

I’m an inventor.

In terms of my involvement in ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools – these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.

I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

My next baby will be my new record.

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.

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.

I just genuinely feel that that’s what you do when you’re an artist: You stick up for the people around you.

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.

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

Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.

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 don’t think that women need to smell interesting.

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

I’m not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.

I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

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.

Hair is about when you’re younger. I am my hair.

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.

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn’t make me feel good at all.

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

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’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.

No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, ‘Did you hear about?’ I don’t want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

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.

I believe in a passion for inclusion.

I just want to keep writing music.

This thing that I do with caring about the message in my music, it’s not separate from my work as a commercial artist; they’re totally one and the same. I’m always going to be thinking about what my voice means.

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

The dieting wars have got to stop.

The kindness that’s been shown to me, by doctors as well as my family and my friends, it’s really saved my life.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

I know people said I wasn’t selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you’re talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.

I want to – more than anything – to create a moment that people will never forget. Not for me, but for themselves. That’s what I remember about great Super Bowl performances in the past, when you really get lost in the moment with your family.

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.

I don’t like celebrities; I don’t hang out with them; I don’t relate to that life.

I like black because it is a vacant space.

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.

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.

I don’t want to make niche-oriented music.

I’ve had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year’s worth of rent.

I don’t know if it’s changing already with ‘Joanne,’ but my intention is to bring people together that don’t know each other and that would maybe feel awkward, but somehow be brought together by the music. That’s what I wanted to do. Because that is pure and authentic to my family history and what I stand for.

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.

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.

If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don’t really know me at all.

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I’m not afraid of my flaws.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

I’m not a supermodel. That’s not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what’s happening on the outside.

My mother always wanted to give back.

I think it’s OK to be confident in yourself.

So there’s nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who’s cool hates – and then making it cool.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

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

I’m a wandering gypsy.

I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.

There is spontaneity to my work.

Love is an interesting thing.

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.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you – when life opens that door for you, I should say – I think it’s important to be giving, to return the love back.

I was so ashamed of who I was.

Whether I’m wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I’m always the same person inside.

I don’t see myself as ever being like anybody else.

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn’t make me feel good at all.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

I’m working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.

I was always trying – I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.

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.

I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.

Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.

When I heard ‘Jesus, Take the Wheel,’ I was like, OK. Some people look at it as a song written for an American Idol, Carrie Underwood, who is wonderful. But when you’re a songwriter listening to a song, you hear something else. I heard that song, and wow.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

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 always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.

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.

I’ve worked since I was a five-year-old to be a performer.

I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

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’ve suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life.

Pop music will never be low brow.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

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.

When people say ‘marriage’ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

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.

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

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

I write music every day.

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.

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.

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.

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. That is what we do.

I love imperfections.

My records are borderline dance records. They’ve got a real electro-rock heart and soul, and the vibe of the sentiment is pop, but there’s a lot of people that were like, ‘This is a dance record.’

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

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.

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

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.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.

Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.

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 am.

Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

I like pushing boundaries.

When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

When I’m making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

I’m not a sandwich store that only sells turkey sandwiches. I sell a lot of different things.

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

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.

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

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.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

I spend my money on my props and my creations. I’m an inventor.