I'm not a feminist. I hail men, I love men. I celebrate American male culture, and beer, and bars and muscle cars.

I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music?... Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time - the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.

I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.

Clinical psychology tells us arguably that trauma is the ultimate killer.Memories r not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics. they can be lost forever. It’s sort of like my past is an unfinished painting and as the artist of that painting,I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again.

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.

'Born this Way' is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.