Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga (born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta) is an American recording artist. She began performing in the rock music scene of New York City's Lower East Side. She soon signed with Streamline Records, an imprint of Interscope Records, upon its establishment in 2007. During her early time at Interscope, she worked as a songwriter for fellow label artists and captured the attention of Senegalese R&B singer Akon, who recognized her vocal abilities, and had her also sign to his own label, Kon Live Distribution.
Her debut album, The Fame, was released on August 19, 2008. In addition to receiving generally positive reviews, it reached number-one in Canada, Austria, Germany, and Ireland and topped the Billboard Top Electronic Albums chart. Its first two singles,"Just Dance" and "Poker Face", co-written and co-produced with RedOne, became international number-one hits, topping the Hot 100 in The United States as well as other countries. The album later earned a total of six Grammy Award nominations and won awards for Best Electronic/Dance Album and Best Dance Recording. In early 2009, after having opened for New Kids on the Block and the Pussycat Dolls, she embarked on her first headlining tour, The Fame Ball Tour. By the fourth quarter of 2009, she released her second studio album The Fame Monster, with the global chart-topping lead single "Bad Romance", as well as having embarked on her second headlining tour of the year, The Monster Ball Tour.
Lady Gaga has also stated fashion is a source of inspiration for her songwriting and performances. To date, she has sold over eight million albums and 35 million singles digitally worldwide.
“Celebrate all the things you don't like about yourself. love yourself.”
“Never be afraid to be kicked in the teeth. Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.”
“There's something about lonely nights and my lipstick on your face ”
“You have to stop crying, and you have to go kick some ass.”
“I am the excuse to explore your identity. To be exactly who you are and to feel unafraid. To not judge yourself, to not hate yourself.”
“Take my picture Hollywood. I wanna be STAR”
“Bare your struggles very close to your heart and have them be a part of you that you’re proud of instead of something that you’re ashamed of.”
“A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist”
“Memories are not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics; they can be lost forever.”
“Glam culture is ultimately rooted in obsession, and those of us who are truly devoted and loyal to the lifestyle of glamour are masters of its history. Or, to put it more elegantly, we are librarians.”
“You will never find what you are looking for in love, if you don't love yourself.”
“I hate the truth so much that i'd rather have a giant dose of bulls**t anyday”
“My fashion is part of who I am, and though I was not born with these clothes on, I was born this way.”
“Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.”
“Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.”
“It's sort of like my past is an unfinished painting, and as the artist of that painting, I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again.”
“It's cooler to be strong.”
“People ask me why I wear veils. I reply, I am mourning. Mourning what? Well I figure something shitty must be going on somewhere.”
“Dirty pony, I can't wait to hose you down.”
“At the end of the day, you won't be happy unil you love yourself.”
“Never be afraid to dream.”
“For being different, it’s easy. But to be unique, it’s a complicated thing.”
“Watch very closely as the magical angel and I are swallowed by the rainbow twister, and left stranded on the glitter way.”
“love is just a history that they may prove and when your gone ill tell them my religion is you”
“Peace. it does not mean to be in a place where there is no trouble, noise, or hard work. it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart”
“It doesn't matter who you are, or where you come from, or how much money you've got in your pocket. You have your own destiny and your own life ahead of you.”
“It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call.”
“You really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.”
“I think there are different kinds of fame. There's fame which is plastic and about paparazzi and money and being rich, and then there's the fame, which is when no one knows who you are but everyone wants to know who you are.”
“Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.”
“I'm just a holy fool”
“All that ever holds somebody back, I think, is fear. For a minute I had fear. [Then] I went into the [dressing] room and shot my fear in the face...”
“A girl’s got to use what she’s given and I’m not going to make a guy drool the way a Britney video does. So I take it to extremes. I don’t say I dress sexily on stage - what I do is so extreme. It’s meant to make guys think: ‘I don’t know if this is sexy or just weird.”
“And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.”
“To everyone who says this is wrong to feel like this say, 'I was born this way baby.”
“I want you to walk out of here tonight not loving me more, but loving yourselves more.”
“Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses, cuz we were born this way bitch!”
“When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time. ”
“I don't want the 5 dollars in your pocket, I want your soul”
“Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are.”
“If you dont have any shadows you're not in the light”
“You're love is nothing I can't fight. Can't sleep with a man who dims my shine. ”
“Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you.”
“So many will try to destroy me. So many, over and over, coming in periods of greatness. But in this period, I cannot be broken: GAGAKLEIN.”
“A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I'd die for my fans.”
“The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate against all forms of discrimination + prejudice.”
“That's Right Hunny-B”
“People will always talk, so lets give them sumthin to talk about”
“I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true”
“My new album that I'm creating, which is finished pretty much, was written with this new instinctual energy that I've developed getting to know my fans. They protect me, so now it's my destiny to protect them.”