Every time they told me “no”, I just got stronger.

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.

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.

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

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

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

You have to be unique, and different, and shine in your own way.

‎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!

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.

They can't scare me, if I scare them first.

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

I want the deepest, darkest, sickest parts of you that you are afraid to share with anyone because I love you that much.

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.