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" I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you. "

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" Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all. "

" The reason that I'm here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That's my truth. "

" 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.' "

" I just want to keep writing music. "

" Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad. "

" I miss people. I miss going anywhere and meeting a random person and saying 'Hi' and having a conversation about life. I love people. "

" I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while. "

" I don't know if I'm selfless - I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that's not completely selfless. But the truth is I'm not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That's always been how I am. "

" I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to. "

" Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States. "

" My apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage - they're just not stages you're allowed to see. "

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

" I live in Hollywood, but you can't make me love Hollywood. I'll never love Hollywood. "

" I love imperfections. "

" I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star. "

" I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid. "

" I like pushing boundaries. "

" I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another. "

" In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it. "

" I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big. "

" 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. I have no restrictions. No restrictions. "

" I began singing in dive bars and really small clubs. I dragged my piano down the stairs, and I went down the street with my keyboard, and I would go to every different dive bar that I could get to agree to let me play. I'd call and pretend I was Lady Gaga's manager. "

" 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. "

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

" Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead. "

" I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer. "

" I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me. "

" I'm drawn to bad romances. "

" When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves. "

" I want to - more than anything - to create a moment that people will never forget. Not for me, but for themselves. That's what I remember about great Super Bowl performances in the past, when you really get lost in the moment with your family. "