Never bully anyone because Karma has everyone's address and a motherf**king stamp!

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

Our celebration of difference needs to extend to differences of values and belief, too. Diversity includes political and cultural diversity. It includes a diversity of perspectives and approaches to solving problems. See, it's far too easy, with social media shaping our interactions, to engage only with people with whom we already agree - members of our tribe. Well, this world is and must be bigger than that. ... To let yourself be vulnerable to another point of view - that's what takes true courage. To open yourself to another's convictions, and risk being convinced, a little, or a lot, of the validity of their perspective.

Artistic expression, sex, and truth are the only things that really matter.

I am attracted to a thug. I like that quality, but I like the other side of it, too. Because all guys who go around behaving in macho ways are really scared little girls. So you have to look beneath the surface. There's a difference between my ideal man and a man that I'm sexually attracted to, believe me. Therein lies the rub.

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.