Quotes from Lady Gaga

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history... this is what makes you strong. It's not looking out that's going to do that - it's looking in.

I'm drawn to bad romances.

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

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

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

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.

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.

I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.

I believe in a passion for inclusion.

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

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.

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

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they'll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad's restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

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

I've suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life.

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.

There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.

I'm a wandering gypsy.

The dieting wars have got to stop.

Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

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.

I want women -- and men -- to feel empowered by a deeper and more psychotic part of themselves. The part they're always trying desperately to hide. I want that to become something that they cherish.

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