Lady Gaga Quotes

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

If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don’t really know me at all.

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 was so ashamed of who I was.

My whole life is a theater piece.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

When I’m making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.

I don’t like talking to celebrities.

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.

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

I’ve worked since I was a five-year-old to be a performer.

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

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.

Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, ‘What kind of music do you make?’, and you say, ‘Pop music.’ You may as well have ‘I’m not cool’ stamped on your forehead.

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 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.