Quotes from Lady Gaga

Music changed my life. I don't know who I would be without it. Don't ignore even the smallest glimmer of passion in your soul, run towards it with everything you have. It could change your life.

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

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.

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 already am a product.

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.

Be brave and celebrate with us your 'perceived flaws,' as society tells us. May we make our flaws famous, and thus redefine the heinous.

You define beauty for yourself, society doesn't define your beauty. Your spirit and your faith defines your beauty.

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

You can be whoever you choose to become in the future, just do it. Just see it and visualize it and every day of your life project that about yourself.

Art is life, life is art - the question is what came first?

My fans are who I am. You give meaning to my life. You will never know the connection I feel to you.

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.

My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I'm very protective.

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.

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

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

I've had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.

I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.

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.

My audience went, 'Wait, why is she singing jazz? What's going on?' And then they went, 'Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.' And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

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.

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.

If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.