Identity Quotes

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.

It would be so helpful for the straight community to see men in powerful positions coming out and saying "I'm gay" so they don't have these preconceived notions that all gay men are smarmy idiots living on the street or whatever it is people think of gay men. I think it would be really helpful and productive.

There is a very modest side to me too. How far away from me is the image? It's about 20 steps away.

Diva is a female version of a hustler.

Everyone calls me Bruno; they don't ever call me Peter - that was just my government name.

I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect.

Too many girl rush into relationships because of the fear of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. Don't do that.

Robyn is who I am. Rihanna - that's an idea of who I am.

When I cut my hair, the whole sound changed, my style changed.

In my show I announce, 'People say Lady Gaga is a lie, and they are right. I am a lie. And every day I kill to make it true.

Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.

Being gay is like glitter, it never goes away.

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 am the most well-known homosexual in the world.

You're born with the wrong names, wrong parents. I mean, that happens. You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free.

I'm a '60s troubadour, a folk-rock relic, a wordsmith from bygone days, a fictitious head of state from a place nobody knows. I'm in the bottomless pit of cultural oblivion.

As a performer I've played for 50,000 people and I've played for 50 people and I can tell you that it is harder to play for 50 people. 50,000 people have a singular persona, not so with 50. Each person has an individual, separate identity, a world unto themselves. They can perceive things more clearly. Your honesty and how it relates to the depth of your talent is tried.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

My identity shifted when I got into recovery. That's who I am now, and it actually gives me greater pleasure to have that identity than to be a musician or anything else, because it keeps me in a manageable size. When I'm down on the ground with my disease-which I'm happy to have-it gets me in tune. It gives me a spiritual anchor. Don't ask me to explain.