Quotes from Lady Gaga

In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

You can be whoever you choose to become in the future, just do it. Just see it and visualize it and every day of your life project that about yourself.

I think that once you've had a few No. 1s in your career that you've kind of proven yourself, and I don't feel the need to prove anything anymore.

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

I've had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.

My audience went, 'Wait, why is she singing jazz? What's going on?' And then they went, 'Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.' And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

My whole life is a theater piece.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.

I believe in a glamorous life, and I live a glamorous life.