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.

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

Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care about anymore.

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.

If you dont have any shadows you're not in the light

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

This is who the fuck I am.

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 fucking deli without hearing or seeing me.

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

just remember: i love you, and love yourselves. 'cause, little monsters, you were born that way baby.

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.

I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true

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.

When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time.

I'm a little bit naked, but that's okay.

All that ever holds somebody back, I think, is fear. For a minute I had fear. [Then] I went into the [dressing] room and shot my fear in the face...

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

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.

I'm already crazy. I'm a fearless person. I think it creeps up on you. I don't think it can be stopped. If my destiny is to lose my mind because of fame, then that's my destiny. But my passion still means more than anything.

Don't be a drag.Just be a queen.

My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me.

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.

My new album that I'm creating, which is finished pretty much, was written with this new instinctual energy that I've developed getting to know my fans. They protect me, so now it's my destiny to protect them.

So many will try to destroy me. So many, over and over, coming in periods of greatness. But in this period, I cannot be broken: GAGAKLEIN.

We are not just Art for Michelangelo to carve, he can't rewrite the agro of my furied heart- Lady Gaga 10/22/10

Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you.

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

The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate against all forms of discrimination + prejudice.

Every year when i travel around the world, i wonder if it’ll be diferent, maybe one year won’t come to the show or you’ll be less festival, but what i realized during ARTPOP is that we belong together and some stories have no end. I will follow you around the world as long as you’ll have me because i love making music, i love making art and i love, love meeting all you beautiful, creative people“.

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

It's cooler to be strong.

Clinical psychology tells us arguably that trauma is the ultimate killer.Memories r not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics. they can be lost forever. It’s sort of like my past is an unfinished painting and as the artist of that painting,I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again.

Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.

Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother fucker's reflection.

I imagine many of my fans share a similarly chaotic feeling in their own lives. This album 'ARTPOP was written to make sense of that chaos.

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.

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

I used to walk down the street like I was a fucking star... I 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.

Do you know the feeling, when your heart is so hurt, that you could feel the blood dripping?

It's always wrong to hate but it's never wrong to love.

If you don't have shadows, you're not in the light.

I remember watching the mascara tears flood the ivories and I thought, "It's OK to be sad." I've been trained to love my darkness.

As artists, we are eternally heartbroken.

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

Being gay is like glitter, it never goes away.

I've always been famous, it's just no one knew it yet.

Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Take my picture Hollywood. I wanna be STAR

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

You have to stop crying, and you have to go kick some ass.