I used to be so delusional. I always imagined I could be more than I was, and eventually I grew and evolved into that person.
The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.
I am the excuse to explore your identity. To be exactly who you are and to feel unafraid. To not judge yourself, to not hate yourself.
I think there are different kinds of fame. There's fame which is plastic and about paparazzi and money and being rich, and then there's the fame, which is when no one knows who you are but everyone wants to know who you are.
Watch very closely as the magical angel and I are swallowed by the rainbow twister, and left stranded on the glitter way.
I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.
There's something about lonely nights and my lipstick on your face.
Tonight love and hate met in St. Louis. And love outnumbered the hate, in poetic thousands. Hate left. But love stayed. + Together, we sang.
My new album that I'm creating, which is finished pretty much, was written with this new instinctual energy that I've developed getting to know my fans. They protect me, so now it's my destiny to protect them.
I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.
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.
The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.
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.
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.
I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.
I realized my father's sister Joanne, who died at 19 had instilled her spirit in me.
My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.
Some people are just born stars - you either have it or you haven't, and I was definitely born one.
My grandmother is basically blind, but she can make out the lighter parts, like my skin and hair. She says, 'I can see you, because you have no pants on.' So I'll continue to wear no pants so that my grandma can see me.
I don't want to sound presumptuous, but I've made it my goal to revolutionize pop music. The last revolution was launched by Madonna 25 years ago.
