Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I've never been in love before - I don't really know? I think I have. I guess it's subjective in that way.

All that ever holds somebody back, I think, is fear. For a minute I had fear. [Then] I went into the [dressing] room and shot my fear in the face.

I feel that homophobia runs rampant in the music industry, and that artists are allowed to speak openly in a hateful way, in a homophobic way, in a misogynistic way, and the press does not challenge them. And I'm going to be taking a very strong stance against that, and I am an artist who refuses to accept that behavior.

I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.

I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.