Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.
If you dont have any shadows you're not in the light
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...
I love my daddy. My daddy's everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.
It's always wrong to hate but it's never wrong to love.
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.
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 don't think I could think of a single thing that's more isolating than being famous.
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.
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.
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.'
Making your dad happy is - especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I'll tell you - it feels really good.
All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they'll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad's restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing...
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 ti...
Its oke to be sad. I've been trained to love my darkness
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.
Pop music will never be low brow.
I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.
I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.
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 yo...