Identity Quotes

I am the most well-known homosexual in the world.

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

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.

Being gay is like glitter, it never goes away.

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.

I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga. They said I was very theatrical... So they said, you're Gaga.

I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time.

Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.

My fashion is part of who I am, and though I was not born with these clothes on, I was born this way.

Gaga and Stefani are my nicknames. I guess when people meet me for the first time and call me Stefani, it bothers me. Because it's something that's reserved for only the people who are closest to me. It's not because I don't like my given name; it's that I became somebody else. I became somebody else for a reason, you know. This is part of what my message is - you can become whoever you want to be, to escape your past.

The way that I sing, what I sing about, what I wear, who I am, this is me. I was born this way.

I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.

In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.

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.

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

Don't make your career be your life. Let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.

The craziest thing I've done is cut my hair blonde and short a couple of years ago. And people reached out to me saying, 'Celine, you're one of the most stable things we have in our lives, don't do that. We want you the way you are.'

My name's not John Beatle, it's John Lennon.

I am Peter Pan. He represents youth, childhood, never growing up, magic, flying.

If you're lucky enough to be different, never change.