You define beauty for yourself, society doesn’t define your beauty. Your spirit and your faith defines your beauty.

Gaga and Stefani are my nicknames. I guess when people meet me for the first time and call me Stefani, it bothers me. Because it's something that's reserved for only the people who are closest to me. It's not because I don't like my given name; it's that I became somebody else. I became somebody else for a reason, you know. This is part of what my message is - you can become whoever you want to be, to escape your past.

The most important thing about creativity is that you honor your creativity and you don't ever ignore it or go against what that creative image is telling you.

Money is completely boring to me. It means nothing, except it feeds my art. Every penny I make goes back into the Haus of GaGa. My Haus of GaGa is something like Andy Warhol's Factory.

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

I'm not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.

My fashion is part of who I am, and though I was not born with these clothes on, I was born this way.