I'm obsessively opposed to the typical.
If you're a strong female, you don't need permission.
Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me!
Don't be insecure, if your heart is pure.
Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.
To everyone who says this is wrong to feel like this say, 'I was born this way baby.
Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body.
Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it.
I've always been famous, it's just no one knew it yet.
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.
I learned that my sadness never destroyed what was great about me. You just have to go back to that greatness, find that one little light that's left. I'm lucky I found one little glimmer stored away.
I'd rather people love me or hate me than have no opinion of me. Indifference is scary.
Being gay is like glitter, it never goes away.
I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.
I want the deepest, darkest, sickest parts of you that you are afraid to share with anyone because I love you that much.
Memories are not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics; they can be lost forever.
Be brave and celebrate with us your 'perceived flaws,' as society tells us. May we make our flaws famous, and thus redefine the heinous.
I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.
It's not an underground tool for me. It's my whole life. I always joke the real motivation is to just turn the world gay.
Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.
