This is who the fuck I am.

— Lady Gaga

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.

— Lady Gaga

Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that motherfucker's reflection.

— Lady Gaga

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.

— Lady Gaga

We are not just Art for Michelangelo to carve, he can't rewrite the ago of my buried heart-Lady Gaga 10/22/10

— Lady Gaga

Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care about anymore.

— Lady Gaga

Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it.

— Lady Gaga

What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

— Lady Gaga

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

— Lady Gaga

When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.

— Lady Gaga