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

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

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.

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.

I'm a free bitch baby

I'm obsessively opposed to the typical.

People will always talk, so lets give them sumthin to talk about

Cause it's a hard life, with love in the world. and i'm a hard girl, loving me is like chewing on pearls.

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...

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

I want women -- and men -- to feel empowered by a deeper and more psychotic part of themselves. The part they're always trying desperately to hide. I want that to become something that they cherish.

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

As artists, we are eternally heartbroken.

Once you kill a cow, you gotta make a burger

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

Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner, you want to be like yourself. I want my fans to know it's okay.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel like any other insecure 24-year-old girl. Then I say,'Bitch, you're Lady Gaga, you get up and walk the walk today.

You're love is nothing I can't fight. Can't sleep with a man who dims my shine.

Being gay is like glitter, it never goes away.

Live your eyeliner, breathe your lipstick, and kill for each other -Lady Gaga via twitter

I want you to walk out of here tonight not loving me more, but loving yourselves more.

I just I felt like a freak, I guess what I'm trying to say is I want to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can create their own space in the world

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.

Sexuality is half poison and half liberation. What’s the line? I don’t have a line.

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

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

I don't want the 5 dollars in your pocket, I want your soul

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

At the end of the day, you won't be happy unil you love yourself.

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

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

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

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.

This is who the fuck I am.

So basically I did this whole show carrying 100lbs, looking out of one eye, dancing – and then my tits explode at the end. It's not as easy as it looks!

Peace. it does not mean to be in a place where there is no trouble, noise, or hard work. it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart

You will never find what you are looking for in love, if you don't love yourself.

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.

For all my love little monsters i am your mom you are my child in my hand i protect you like my eyes but dont worry ill cacth you if you fall.

I would rather die than have my fans see me without a pair of heels on. And that's show business.

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.

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.

That's Right Hunny-B

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

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

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.

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.

How can I protect something so perfect without evil...

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.

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