“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“I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.”
Fitness“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“I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.”
Fitness“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 never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.”
Experience“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.”
Money“When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.”
Morning“To this day, some of my closest friends say, 'Gaga, you know, everything's great. You're a singer your dreams have come true.' But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you're growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they're true.”
Dreams“In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'”
Age“My mom and I are very close.”
Mom“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“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 want to make money I want to make a difference.”
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 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 to keep writing music.”
Music“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'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.”
Cool“I write music every day.”
Music“Pop music will never be low brow.”
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