Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We’re very different. I wouldn’t make that comparison at all, and I don’t mean to disrespect Madonna: she’s a nice lady, and she’s had a fantastic, huge career – biggest pop star of all time.

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians – you are not like him.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

I say, ‚Yeah, Taylor Swift.‘ I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she’s making all the right moves. She’s got a good head on her shoulders. She’s surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she’s living and standing by that.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn’t believe in.

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her – for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

I’ve had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, ‚Your music sucks, you don’t know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don’t know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.‘

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

I’ve been invited to do ‚Dancing With the Stars‘ three times, but Lifetime said no.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

That’s when it becomes a business. When you’ve been public a long time, when it’s a career. You do certain films, you sell them.

I’m a workin‘ girl.

Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don’t really know me at all.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

If you ever see The Rock working out in the gym, don’t think you can just go up and disturb his workout and expect him to take a picture. He’s there to work, so kindly just pass the silverback on by or he’ll rip your face off.

Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted.

The effect of music on fashion has been immense, especially hip-hop and urban music.

Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.

Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Even though I’ve been putting out bodies of work for years, ‚Beauty Behind the Madness‘ felt like the beginning.

Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

Pop music will never be low brow.

I’m like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.

During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.

It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‚Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.‘

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world – but it doesn’t happen twice.

I think we understand that for the Court to work well, we have to not only respect but genuinely like each other.

I’ve done a number of Super Bowl ads. And that is the best advertising of the year. That is when people realize they’re going to be compared directly against other ads.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

Well, we’re living in a material world, and I’m a material girl… or boy.

Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.

I think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.

I think the message has already been sent to Hollywood, which is that this kid’s a hard worker, he’s talented, and people are coming out to see him. And when you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up.

There’s a reason why the Foo Fighters don’t blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that’s hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn’t really come up, or it just hasn’t felt right.

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that’s OK, too. It’s whatever suits you.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Just as I wanted to outdo everyone when I played, I had to outdo everyone when we were out on the town.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

I’m well past the age where I’m acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You’re not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you’re not going to get played on radio and you’re not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

Joanne‘ is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

I’ve been a mogul and executive since the beginning of my career. People are just born with that skill.

I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I’ll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I’m gonna tell ya, that’s one helluva man, and God bless him.

God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

I’ve never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don’t run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.

In my career as a director, there’s always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: ‚What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?‘ At that time you have to say: ‚OK, forget that and just go ahead.‘

The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.