I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.
Lady GagaRead
Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.
Interpretation
This quote reflects on the nature of fame and the human desires that accompany it, suggesting that understanding and managing these desires is crucial.
Lady Gaga's quote emphasizes that fame is not just a superficial status but is deeply intertwined with human desires. It highlights the importance of recognizing these cyclical desires, advocating for a mindful approach to fame that involves either letting go of or skillfully managing our aspirations and cravings for recognition and validation from others.
In practice
In a motivational speech about the challenges of fame in the entertainment industry.
I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.
I am not perfect. I just think that imperfections are beautiful.
I think that once you've had a few No. 1s in your career that you've kind of proven yourself and I don't feel the need to prove anything anymore.
You can be whoever you choose to become in the future, just do it. Just see it and visualize it and every day of your life project that about yourself.
Sexuality is half poison and half liberation. Whatβs the line? I donβt have a line.
I very much want to inject gay culture into the mainstream. It's not an underground tool for me. It's my whole life.
If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be far fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
Slavery was not a bad day on the job. It was not your boss yelling at you. It was not hard work for little pay. This was a full system of human subjugation.
All extremes of feeling are allied to madness.
The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself.
Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.
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