Phrases

-Don’t you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can’t be exactly who you are.

-Fight and push harder for what you believe in, you’d be surprised, you are much stronger than you think.

-If you don’t have any shadows, you’re not standing in the light.

-Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.

-Confidence is key, if you don’t have it, fake it!

-Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses because we were born this way.

-For being different, it’s easy. But to be unique, it’s a complicated thing.

-We need fantasy to survive because reality is too difficult.

-You have to fail and then get better. Then you have to fail again, and then get even better.

-Its oke to be sad. I’ve been trained to love my darkness

-Celebrate all the things you don’t like about yourself. love yourself.

-Even if the whole world turns their back on you, you will always have yourself.

-People will always talk, so lets give them sumthin to talk about

-You will never find what you are looking for in love, if you don’t love yourself.

-They can’t scare me, if I scare them first.

-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.

-It’s always wrong to hate, but it’s never wrong to love.

-You have to be unique, and different, and shine in your own way.

-It doesn’t matter who you are, or where you come from, or how much money you’ve got in your pocket. You have your own destiny and your own life ahead of you.

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

-Never be afraid to dream.

-Stand up for those who cannot stand up for themselves; its your responsibility

-If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

-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.

-Bare your struggles very close to your heart and have them be a part of you that you’re proud of instead of something that you’re ashamed of.

-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.

-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?’

-People that are obsessed with hating you, feel flattered. Their whole lives revolve around you.

-My new year’s resolution: Never be afraid to be kicked in the teeth. Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.

-At the end of the day, you won’t be happy until you love yourself.

-Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me!

-To everyone who says this is wrong to feel like this say, ‘I was born this way baby.

The reason I don’t want anyone to control me is not because I want to be in control. I don’t want anyone to control me because I don’t want anyone to control anyone.

-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.

Well, that’s your opinion, isn’t it? And I’m not about to waste my time trying to change it.

-People ask me why I wear veils. I reply, I am mourning. Mourning what? Well I figure something shitty must be going on somewhere.

-Peace. it does not mean to be in a place where there is no trouble, noise, or hard work. it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart

-I learned that my sadness never destroyed what was great about me. You just have to go back to that greatness, find that one little light that’s left. I’m lucky I found one little glimmer stored away.

-I am a feminist. I reject wholeheartedly the way we are taught to perceive women. The beauty of women, how a woman should act or behave. Women are strong and fragile. Women are beautiful and ugly. We are soft-spoken and loud, all at once. There is something mind-controlling about the way we’re taught to view women.

-Money can run out but talent is forever

-Don’t be a drag. Just be a queen.

-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 very much want to inject gay culture into the mainstream. It’s not an underground tool for me. It’s my whole life.

-Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore.

-And now, I’m just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.

-Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body.

-If anyone tells you that you can’t achieve your dreams, or puts you down, make your hand into a claw and tell them you’re a little monster and you can do whatever the f*** you want.

-I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

-Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.

-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.

-If you’re a strong female, you don’t need permission.

-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.

-I adored Freddie Mercury and Queen had a hit called Radio Gaga. That’s why I love the name. Freddie was unique – one of the biggest personalities in the whole of pop music. He was not only a singer but also a fantastic performer, a man of the theatre and someone who constantly transformed himself. In short: a genius.

-Rejoice and love yourself today
‘Cause baby, you were born this way.

-My mama told me when I was young we’re all born SUPERSTARS!

-When you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.

-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.

-I’m not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

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

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

-I’m obsessively opposed to the typical.

-I just wanna be myself, and I want you to love me for who I am

-I’m perpetually lonely.

-I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff.

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

-I had My Little Ponies. I was obsessed with the idea of a creature that was born with something magical that sort of made them the misfit in the world of the stallion. I’m actually quite obsessed with unicorns. They are in essence a mythical creature. The unicorn is born magical and it’s not the unicorn’s fault and it doesn’t make it any more or less special or any less unique but it can’t help that it was born with that magic.

-Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

-The most important thing about creativity is that you honor your creativity and you don’t ever ignore it or go against what that creative image is telling you.

-A girl’s just as hot as the shoes she choose

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

-A girl’s got to use what she’s given and I’m not going to make a guy drool the way a Britney video does. So I take it to extremes. I don’t say I dress sexily on stage – what I do is so extreme. It’s meant to make guys think: ‘I don’t know if this is sexy or just weird.

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

-I want the deepest, darkest, sickest parts of you that you are afraid to share with anyone because I love you that much.

-Glam culture is ultimately rooted in obsession, and those of us who are truly devoted and loyal to the lifestyle of glamour are masters of its history. Or, to put it more elegantly, we are librarians.

-How can I protect something so perfect without evil.

-Depression doesn’t take away your talents – it just makes them harder to find.

-I feel the denial of gay marriage sends a prejudice message. Our youth deserve a fair and hopeful future with government that values us equally.

-I do not have to be high to be great. I do not have to be drunk to have a good idea. I can sit with my thoughts and not feel crazy. I can do it… I can do it without the dope.

-Don’t be insecure, if your heart is pure

-I’m going to be a star, you know why? Because I have nothing left to lose.

-If you dont have any shadows you’re not in the light

-I see love in black and white. Passion in shades of “gris”. But when it comes to you and I, color is all I see.

-I had a boyfriend who told me I’d never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I’d fail. I said to him, ‘Someday, when we’re not together, you won’t be able to order a cup of coffee at the f***** deli without hearing or seeing me.’

-Never bully anyone because Karma has everyone’s address and a motherf**king stamp!

-Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

-Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams.

-I’m not interested, Larry, in being a perfect, plastic pop singer that looks great in bikinis and is on the cover of every magazine. I’m more interested in helping my fans to love who they are, and helping them to reject prejudice and reject those things that they’re taught from society to not like themselves, to feel like freaks, that they’re not wanted.

-I like black because it is a vacant space.

-If love is a sin, live a lie. You and Me, until I die.

-Memories are not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics; they can be lost forever.

-You must always remember, the most important fashion accessory is the condom.

-I don’t see myself as ever being like anybody else.

-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 work very hard, but when God opens that door for you – when life opens that door for you, I should say – I think it’s important to be giving, to return the love back.

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

-I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

-There is nothing Holy about hatred.

-The fashion I’ve acquired over the years is so sacred to me – from costumes to couture, high fashion to punk wear I’ve collected from my secret international hot spots. I keep everything in an enormous archive in Hollywood. The clothes are on mannequins, also on hangers and in boxes with a photo of each piece, and there’s a Web site where I can go to look through everything. It’s too big – I could never sort through it myself! But these garments tell the stories of my life.

-I’m always on the market for a new friend, period. As your success continues to grow, you start to see who your real friends are. But I’m always looking for wonderful people to have in my life that have no agenda and aren’t fake friends.

-It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn’t make me feel good at all.

-Some of us wear the mask prouder than others.

-I don’t want to be remembered as anything but brave. The only good intention to make money is to help others. I want to be Oprah. I want to be Melinda Gates. If I ever sell products other than my talents, then it will be to give more to others.

-The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.

-A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I’d die for my fans.

-Don’t idolize me, idolize yourself.

-I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I love what I do. I believe in the message. There’s no stopping. I didn’t create the fame, the fame created me.

-Being gay is like glitter, it never goes away.

-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.

-I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

-Money is completely boring to me. It means nothing, except it feeds my art. Every penny I make goes back into the Haus of GaGa. My Haus of GaGa is something like Andy Warhol’s Factory.

-I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.

-If you are not honorable enough to fight without prejudice, go home.

-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.

-Friendship is only friendship when it is real. Passionate and relentless. Forgiving and joyful. Don’t forget today to have real moments with your friends. Not a text, or a tweet, an Instagram– that’s all deceit. Hold real hands, kiss genuine lips, be a truly strong human force.

-Equality cannot be reached if fought in a divisive way.

-live your eyeliner, breathe your lipstick, and kill for each other -Lady Gaga via twitter

-If you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

-Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.

-Put your hands up and cheer for yourselves! You are strong, you are brave, you are confident, and I f*ing love you, Israel.

-When the whole world has their eyes on you, if you say something that doesn’t truly come from your spirit and your soul, or if you wear something that doesn’t come from your spirit and your soul, it’s an injustice to your position. And so, I’m really myself every single day and I do it because I know my fans would want me to.

-I feel that if I can show my demise artistically to the public, I can somehow cure my own legend.

-I think it’s OK to be confident in yourself.

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

-No matter gay, straight or bi, lesbian, transgendered life, I’m on the right track baby I was born to survive.

-Pop stars should not eat.