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  • The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

  • 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 think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification.

  • 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 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.

  • 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 wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.

  • Born this Way' is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.

  • 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 am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.

  • 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'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.

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

  • No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it's pretty intense.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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?

  • 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.

  • Being beautiful is not so fun when you're in a business with all men.

  • 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 talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don't live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.

  • I'm drawn to bad romances.

  • Don't say I hate institutionalised religion - rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I'm saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

  • I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

  • Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.

  • Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

  • I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

  • I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, 'cause I'm very smart.

  • I love my friends and my past, and it's made me who I am.

  • I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga, they said I was very theatrical and they said, 'You're Gaga'.

  • To this day, some of my closest friends say, 'Gaga, you know, everything's great. You're a singer; your dreams have come true.' But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you're growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they're true.

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

  • I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

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

  • Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life.

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

  • Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.

  • I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

  • I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we've all heard about before.

  • 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.

  • My records are borderline dance records. They've got a real electro-rock heart and soul, and the vibe of the sentiment is pop, but there's a lot of people that were like, 'This is a dance record.'

  • I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

  • 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.

  • I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

  • It's honestly true that money means nothing to me.

  • I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.

  • 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.

  • I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

  • My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.

  • I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

  • I just want to keep writing music.

  • Then, when I'm in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it's all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

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

  • I already am a product.

  • Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.

  • In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.

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

  • We are not actually equal - humanity - if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

  • I'm not a sandwich store that only sells turkey sandwiches. I sell a lot of different things.

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

  • You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

  • 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.

  • I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.

  • I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.

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

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

  • Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.

  • When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.

  • I have never had plastic surgery, and there are many pop singers who have.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • My apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage - they're just not stages you're allowed to see.

  • Hair is about when you're younger. I am my hair.

  • There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • If I can be a leader, I will.

  • I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.

  • Pop music will never be low brow.

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

  • 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.

  • 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 anyway.

  • I used to walk down the street like I was a fucking starI want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth.

  • 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 will always have a very deep love for Amy Winehouse.

  • Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.

  • In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.

  • I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public.

  • Leather, high heels, and a bad attitude. Here I come.

  • And don't worry, if I get thrown in jail in Manila, Beyonce will just bail me out. Sold out night 2 in the Philippines. I love it here!

  • There are some people in this world that believe being gay is a choice. It's not a choice, we're born this way.

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

  • Its OK to be weird. And maybe your weird is my normal. Whos to say? I think its an attitude.

  • 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.

  • I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.

  • Rejoice and love yourself today 'Cause baby, you were born this way.

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

  • I'm beautiful in my way 'cause God makes no mistakes. I'm on the right track baby, I was born this way.

  • 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.

  • Don't hide yourself in regret, Just love yourself and you're set I'm on the right track, baby I was born this way

  • My fashion is part of who I am, and though I was not born with these clothes on, I was born this way.

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

  • The way that I sing, what I sing about, what I wear, who I am, this is me. I was born this way.

  • How I love David Bowie.

  • Some artists want your money so they can buy Range Rovers and diamond bracelets, but I don't care about that kind of stuff. I want your soul.

  • Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.

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

  • A year from now, I could go away, and people might say, 'Gosh, what ever happened to that girl who never wore pants?' But how wonderfully memorable 30 years from now, when they say, 'Do you remember Gaga and her bubbles?' Because, for a minute, everybody in that room will forget every sad, painful thing in their lives, and they'll just live in my bubble world.

  • For some people, fame kills it and becomes more important than the music or the performance. But for me fame is like rocket fuel. The more my fans like what I'm doing, the more I want to give back to them. And my passion is so strong I can't sleep - I haven'tslept for three days.

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