Quotes from Lady Gaga

Amidst all of these flashing lights I pray the fame won't take my life.

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.

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.

I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.

You may never reach that glorious moment until you die, so live life on the edge halfway between heaven and hell...and let's all dance in the middle in purgatory.

I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.

I like pushing boundaries.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.

My whole life is a theater piece.

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.

Why spend your whole life trying to be somebody that you're not? It's so much more fun to be yourself **** what everybody says.

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 don't like L.A. It's just not fun. I don't know why, but I just don't get it. You have to drive to get everywhere, and when it rains everybody freaks out.

I miss people. I miss going anywhere and meeting a random person and saying 'Hi' and having a conversation about life. I love people.

Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope... It is not a reflection of all religious people.

The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.

I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.

Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.

The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.

Everyone can access the parts of themselves that are great. I'm just a girl from New York City who decided to do this, after all. Rule the world! What's life worth living if you don't rule it?