Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.

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

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

When I die, they'll say Lady Gaga was special but her fans, her Monsters, they were really something

Some people are just born stars – you either have it or you haven’t, and I was definitely born one.

Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life.

They can't scare me, if I scare them first.