Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.

Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams.

The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.

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.

When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.

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

More education for women. More jobs for women. More equal opportunities for women. More women to be taken seriously. And I think more than anything we wish to be heard and not to be shut down. I think this is a good thing to think about for any community; what is important is that our voices be heard and not swallowed in an abyss of history.