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" Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well. "

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" In case you're wondering whether I lip synch, the answer is no... people think so because I sound so good. "

" I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music... Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time - the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music. "

" We are not actually equal - humanity - if we are not allowed to freely love one another. "

" I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed. "

" I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way. "

" I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it. "

" Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show. "

" Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That's the upside to things getting challenging. "

" Being beautiful is not so fun when you're in a business with all men. "

" If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person. "

" That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you. "

" I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what. "

" History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid. "

" If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next. "

" The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them. "

Do The Right Thing

" I'm not a supermodel. That's not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what's happening on the outside. "

" I just want to keep writing music. "

" I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.' "

" It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not. "

" I know people said I wasn't selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you're talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted. "

" I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference. "

" No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it's pretty intense. "

" It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn't make me feel good at all. "

" I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me. "

" I'm not a sandwich store that only sells turkey sandwiches. I sell a lot of different things. "

" I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety. "

" I don't know if it's changing already with 'Joanne,' but my intention is to bring people together that don't know each other and that would maybe feel awkward, but somehow be brought together by the music. That's what I wanted to do. Because that is pure and authentic to my family history and what I stand for. "