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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I’m a free bitch baby.

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.

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.

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

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.

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…

I’m obsessively opposed to the typical

Once you kill a cow, you gotta make a burger.

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 had a boyfriend who told me I’d never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I’d fail. I said to him, ‘Someday, when we’re not together, you won’t be able to order a cup of coffee at the fucking deli without hearing or seeing me.

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.

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

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!

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

Live your eyeliner, breathe your lipstick, and kill for each other 

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’m already crazy. I’m a fearless person. I think it creeps up on you. I don’t think it can be stopped. If my destiny is to lose my mind because of fame, then that’s my destiny. But my passion still means more than anything.

This is the Manifesto of Little Monster 
There is something heroic about the way my fans operate their cameras. So precisely, so intricately and so proudly. Like Kings writing the history of their people, is their prolific nature that both creates and procures what will later be percieved as the kingdom. So the real truth about Lady Gaga fans, my little monsters, lies in this sentiment: They are the Kings. They are the Queens. They write the hisory of the kingdom and I am something of a devoted Jester. It is in the theory of perception that we have established our bond, or the lie I should say, for which we kill. We are nothing without our image. Without our projection. Without the spiritual hologram of who we percieve ourselves to be or rather to become, in the future. 
When you are lonely, 
I will be lonely too. 
And this is the fame.

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

If you dont have any shadows your not in the light.

As artists, we are eternally heartbroken.

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

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

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.

I’m beautiful in my way, ‘cause God makes no mistakes. I’m on the right track, baby. I was Born This Way.

A girl’s got to use what she’s given and I’m not going to make a guy drool the way a Britney video does. So I take it to extremes. I don’t say I dress sexily on stage - what I do is so extreme. It’s meant to make guys think: ‘I don’t know if this is sexy or just weird.

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

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

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

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