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" 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. "

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" Well, 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. "

" 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 always say, you gotta play a dive bar like you play an arena, and you play an arena like you play a dive bar. "

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" I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way. "

" I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up. "

" None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction - they're always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life. "

" 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. "

" The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car. "

" It's an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star. "

" I think what's important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear. "

" 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 hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though. "

" 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.' "

" Love is an interesting thing. "

" Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history... this is what makes you strong. It's not looking out that's going to do that - it's looking in. "

" So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool. "

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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. "

" I have never had plastic surgery, and there are many pop singers who have. "

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

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" I believe in a passion for inclusion. "

" Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us. "

" I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece. "