I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

There is a strong possibility I will release another volume of ARTPOP and I'm really hoping that it's soon.

If you're a strong female, you don't need permission.

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.

If you don't feel safe as a child, you can't learn.