It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you.

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

The whole world might not understand. I don't really care.

I study everything that I do to become better all the time at my craft. The beauty for me about being an artist is that the dream will never die because I'm not obsessed with material things and don't care about the money and don't care about the attention of the public but only the love of my fans. For me it's about keeping the dream alive of how much more devoted, how much more honest, how much better of an artist can I become? That's the only fear that I ever have, that the dream will die.

Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses because we were born this way.

If there was some sort of mathematical equation for beauty, I don’t know if I would be the algorithm. I’m not a supermodel. That’s not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what’s happening on the outside.