I want my fans to love themselves. It’s almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.
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.
I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent’s house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.
I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.
I’m not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.
I have never had plastic surgery, and there are many pop singers who have.
Love is an interesting thing.
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.
People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.
I want you to know, that when you are lonely, I will be lonely too.
The way that I sing, what I sing about, what I wear, who I am, this is me. I was born this way.
I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.
I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
I guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.
I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.
I don’t think that women need to smell interesting.
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.
Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.
The dieting wars have got to stop.