Lady GaGa Quotes
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.
"I think that artifice is the new reality. It's more about just being honest and sincere to the core of what you do. Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside."
"I'm the biggest bacon fan ever! And not really working out, so I think that the best thing you can do for your body is be happy."
"I think what has been lovely about my relationship with the public is that they expect something unexpected from me."
On Jamey Rodemeyer's suicide due to bullying: I am meeting with our President. I will not stop fighting. This must end. Our generation has the power to end it. Trend it.
Bullying must become be illegal. It is a hate crime.
I'm single right now and I've chosen to be single because I don't have the time to get to know anybody. So it's okay not to have sex, it's okay to get to know people. I'm celibate. Celibacy's fine.
I have dreamt a lifetime to get on this flight to New York. I don't care if it's summer. Leather, high heels, and a bad attitude. Here I come.
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.'
The last thing a young woman needs is another picture of a sexy pop star writhing in sand, covered in grease, touching herself. My image was an issue at my record label. I fought for months and cried at meetings. I got criticized for being arrogant because if you're sure of yourself as a woman they say you're a bitch whereas if you're a man and you're strong—willed it's normal.
It's funny when people say they see a lot of Madonna in me. I just feel so flattered because I love her and I am just her biggest fan. She is very strong. I love the way she does interviews --you know you won't get anything past her.
Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that motherfucker's reflection.
You have to be unique, and different, and shine in your own way.
"I struggle with my feelings about the church in particular, but I guess it's quite honestly completely separate, isn't it? Religion and the church are two completely separate things. In terms of religion, I'm very religious. I was raised Catholic I believe in Jesus, I believe in God, I'm very spiritual -- I pray very much. But at the same time there's no one religion that doesn't hate or speak against or be prejudiced against another racial group or religious group or sexual group and for that I think religion is also bogus. So I suppose you could say I'm a quite religious woman that is very confused about religion. I dream of and envision a future where we have a more peaceful religion or a more peaceful world a more peaceful state of mind for the younger generation.
(On her 2010 MTV VMA meat dress)"Well, it is certainly no disrespect to anyone that is vegan or vegetarian. As you know, I am the most judgment-free human being on the earth. However, it has many interpretations, but for me this evening ... If we don't stand up for what we believe in and if we don't fight for our rights, pretty soon we're going to have as much rights as the meat on our own bones. And I am not a piece of meat."
"When they start stating that you have extra appendages, you have to assume that they're unable to destroy you."
"Sometimes it really freaks me out--or I should say, it petrifies me--when I think about laying in my apartment [in New York] with big bites from bedbugs and roaches on the floor and mirrors with cocaine everywhere and no will or interest in doing anything but making music and getting high."
"When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year old girl. Then I say, 'Bitch, you're Lady Gaga, you get up and walk the walk today.'"
"I have the right to choose whether or not I want to be a celebrity, and I don't want to be one...I'd much rather people write about what I wear and what I'm singing and what I do in my videos than about who I'm fucking. I mean, that, for me, is the kiss of death."
"I'll always have one high heel in New York City. I live in Hollywood, but you can't make me love Hollywood. I'll never love Hollywood."
"Being a woman in the pop world, sexuality is half poison and half liberation."
"I don't like to talk about it too much, but there were drugs in my teenage years. The reason I don't like to talk about it is I wouldn't want anyone else to do it. I believe it could have ruined everything."
"Money is completely boring to me. It means nothing, except it feeds my art. Every penny I make goes back into the Haus of GaGa. My Haus of GaGa is something like Andy Warhol's Factory."
"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."
"Fight and push harder for what you believe in, you'd be surprised, you are much stronger than you think."
"I was so jet lagged, I passed out about three times on stage that night but I got myself to the floor. I'd rather die on stage than walk off because I was going to pass out."
"There are transsexual women and transgender women and suddenly it becomes poisonous and something else because there are some people in this world that believe being gay is a choice. It's not a choice, we're born this."
"I am the most sexually free woman on the planet, and I genuinely am empowered from a very honest place by my sexuality."
"Pop stars should not eat."
"I feel that if I can show my demise artistically to the public, I can somehow cure my own legend"
"And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time."
"Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no trouble, noise, or hard work. it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart."
"You either have passion for it, or you don't. It's either important for you to stop,
and buy a condo, and have babies, and marry a rich actor, or not do any of that,
and continue to make music and art, and die alone."
Alex Sim Wise: What's your perfect Valentine's?
Lady GaGa: a good fuck
and some carbohydrates with some like spaghetti
and like good sex
"In the deepest hour of the night I confess to myself three things; I would die if I was forbidden to write, forbidden to love, or forbidden to fashion....love each other, and celebrate the art and lifestyle of music."
"I'm married to my music"
"Poker Face is about "poker-facing" with my sexuality. When I used to make love to my old boyfriend I used to think about women"
"When you do something great, and somebody says 'I like that', you should look at them and say, 'Thank you I worked very hard on this and it's really great', because it the only way to get that sharable sense of value in your life; that "Fame" that has nothing to do with cameras and being a celebrity. I couldn't give a damn about celebrities, but truthfully if you don't honor your own work, you're nothing. So honor your own work and anything that you do..."
"I have fans who just love my music and don't know I write it and enjoy it shallowly -- and that's OK too. I think art and music should be just as powerful if you drink it shallow as if you drink it deep."
"Black girls, white girls, skinny girls, fat girls tall girls, small girls, I'm calling all girls. Everyone report to the dance floor. It's your chance for, a little romance or butt squeezin'; it's the season just go 'aah aah aah aah', it's so appeasing!"
