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.

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

An artist is the only thing I want to be. I only want my freedom and my creativity. It's all that I live for. I reject the idea that I have to take all the costumes and makeup off to be f - king authentic.

All you care about is how punk rock you feel when you wake up in the morning.

I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place.

For being different, it’s easy. But to be unique, it’s a complicated thing.

I'm drawn to bad romances.