3 December 2020 Lady Gaga 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.
3 December 2020 Lady Gaga 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.
3 December 2020 Lady Gaga I’m definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I’m really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.
3 December 2020 Lady Gaga I want my fans to love themselves. It’s almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.
3 December 2020 Lady Gaga 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.
3 December 2020 Lady Gaga I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn’t exist without the performance-art element.
3 December 2020 Lady Gaga 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.
3 December 2020 Lady Gaga 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.
3 December 2020 Lady Gaga I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn’t want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.
3 December 2020 Lady Gaga I’m working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
3 December 2020 Lady Gaga I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
3 December 2020 Lady Gaga I don’t like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.
3 December 2020 Lady Gaga 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.’
3 December 2020 Lady Gaga It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn’t make me feel good at all.
3 December 2020 Lady Gaga 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?’
3 December 2020 Lady Gaga 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.
3 December 2020 Lady Gaga So there’s nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who’s cool hates – and then making it cool.
3 December 2020 Lady Gaga I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent’s house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.
3 December 2020 Lady Gaga 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.
