Quotes from Lady Gaga

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.

Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother fucker's reflection.

When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time.

As artists, we are eternally heartbroken.

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

I used to walk down the street like I was a fucking star... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'

I'm obsessively opposed to the typical.

I write music every day.

If you dont have any shadows you're not in the light

I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.

I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.

I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

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

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.

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 don't want to make niche-oriented music.

I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true

I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.

I just want to keep writing music.

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.

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

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.

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.