“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.”

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

The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate against all forms of discrimination + prejudice.

I remember watching the mascara tears flood the ivories and I thought, It’s OK to be sad. I’ve been trained to love my darkness.

Cause it’s a hard life, with love in the world. and i’m a hard girl, loving me is like chewing on pearls.

I want you to walk out of here tonight not loving me more, but loving yourselves more.

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.

Dirty pony, I can’t wait to hose you down.

To everyone who says this is wrong to feel like this say, ‘I was born this way baby.

I’m telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true

When I wake up in the morning, I feel like any other insecure 24-year-old girl. Then I say,’Bitch, you’re Lady Gaga, you get up and walk the walk today.

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.

At the end of the day, you won’t be happy until you love yourself.

I’m obsessively opposed to the typical.

I’ve always believed in the power of makeup to elevate self-love.

Never be afraid to dream.

And now, I’m just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.

You can’t be a part of the solution, if you refuse to acknowledge you are part of the problem.

I decided to make a choice. And there is beauty in that – decision.

Christians fight best on their knees. Whatever good may be done is done and brought about by prayer.

In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.

Be content with what thou hast received, and smooth thy frowning forehead, for the door of choice is not open either to thee or me.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

I think my all time favourite song would be between ‘Slow Dancing in a Burning Room’ and ‘Dreaming with a Broken Heart’ by John Mayer.

If there are a thousand steps between us and God, He will take all but one. He will leave the final one for us. The choice is ours.