Quotes from Lady Gaga

Do you know the feeling, when your heart is so hurt, that you could feel the blood dripping?

I don't want to make money I want to make a difference.

And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.

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.

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.

Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body.

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

I don't want the 5 dollars in your pocket, I want your soul

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...

Pop music will never be low brow.

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've always been famous, it's just no one knew it yet.

I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I love what I do. I believe in the message. There's no stopping. I didn't create the fame, the fame created me.

I'm a little bit naked, but that's okay.

Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it.

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 am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

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.

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.

Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are.

Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care about anymore.

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.

A girl's got to use what she's given and I'm not going to make a guy drool the way a Britney video does. So I take it to extremes. I don't say I dress sexily on stage - what I do is so extreme. It's meant to make guys think: 'I don't know if this is sexy or just weird.