I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.
Lady Gaga
I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws.
I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.
I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.
Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.
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.
I believe in a passion for inclusion.
You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.
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 think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.
Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We're very different. I wouldn't make that comparison at all, and I don't mean to disrespect Madonna: she's a nice lady, and she's had a fantastic, huge career - biggest pop star of all time.
I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.
I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.
The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.
'Born this Way' is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.
I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference.
I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.
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 have no restrictions. No restrictions.
Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.
I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.
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.
What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.
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 don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.
I love my daddy. My daddy's everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.
When there's justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it's okay for me to say those things.
When I heard 'Jesus, Take the Wheel,' I was like, OK. Some people look at it as a song written for an American Idol, Carrie Underwood, who is wonderful. But when you're a songwriter listening to a song, you hear something else. I heard that song, and wow.
I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.
I'm really happy and had such an amazing time performing at Super Bowl - wish I could relive it all over again.
I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.
Pop music will never be low brow.
The Internet is a toilet. It is.
When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.
Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.
When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.
I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.
I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.
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.
I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.
I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
I don't know if I'm selfless - I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that's not completely selfless. But the truth is I'm not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That's always been how I am.
There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.
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.
In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
I miss people. I miss going anywhere and meeting a random person and saying 'Hi' and having a conversation about life. I love people.
A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.
I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.
Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.
I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music... Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time - the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.
