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

"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."

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

"Do you know the feeling, when your heart is so hurt, that you could feel the blood dripping?"

"When the whole world has their eyes on you, if you say something that doesn't truly come from your spirit and your soul, or if you wear something that doesn't come from your spirit and your soul, it's an injustice to your position. And so, I'm really myself every single day and I do it because I know my fans would want me to."

"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."

"It's okay to be different. It's okay to be unique. It's okay to be weird. It's okay to stand out."

"I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need."

"I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public."

"I want to be a queen in people's hearts."

"I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws."