Quotes from Lady Gaga

I believe in a glamorous life, and I live a glamorous life.

I don't view interviewing as much of a performance. My whole life is in essence a performance but singing and dancing for television is an entirely different thing.

I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.

I always say, you gotta play a dive bar like you play an arena, and you play an arena like you play a dive bar.

In case you're wondering whether I lip synch, the answer is no... people think so because I sound so good.

The reason that I'm here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That's my truth.

You think I'm going to ask these sweet 14 year olds to ask their parents to buy a $100 ticket then run around in latex and lip sync? No way.

If you're going through a dark time... don't ever give up. You can always make your way back to the other end of that circle and find your happiness again.

I started out playing in clubs. I always like existing under ground and over ground at the same time.

I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It's best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

My next baby will be my new record.

A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction - they're always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it's not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?

Meditation helps me to calm down.

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

The Internet is a toilet. It is.

They're not prosthetics. They're my bones. They come out when I'm inspired. They've always been inside of me, but I have been waiting for the right time to reveal to the universe who I truly am.

It takes time to become myself every morning.

The statement is that 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'm a single girl. I like to have a good time. I just sleep with the guys in the band all the time because it's easier.