“When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.”
Morning“I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.”
Experience“When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.”
Morning“I don't care about money.”
Money“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.”
Cool“My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.”
Amazing“I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.”
Art“When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.”
Work“I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.”
Alone“I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.”
Family“I just want to keep writing music.”
Music“What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.”
Art“I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.”
Family“You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.”
Money“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.'”
Art“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.”
Family“I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.”
Hope“I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.”
Hope“I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.”
Experience“Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.”
Music“I don't want to make niche-oriented music.”
Music“What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.”
Famous