Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are.

I am a woman of theatre, I'm a librarian of theatre and I love all different kinds of music and all different kinds of expressions.

You ought to pity me 'cause there's always one man to love/ But in the bedroom the size of him's more than enough.

My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I'm very protective.

I very much want to inject gay culture into the mainstream. It's not an underground tool for me. It's my whole life.

To this day, some of my closest friends say, 'Gaga, you know, everything's great. You're a singer; your dreams have come true.' But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you're growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they're true.

For some people, fame kills it and becomes more important than the music or the performance. But for me fame is like rocket fuel. The more my fans like what I'm doing, the more I want to give back to them. And my passion is so strong I can't sleep - I haven'tslept for three days.