No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it's pretty intense.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

Writing a record is like dating a few men at once. You take them to the same restaurants to see if they measure up, and at some point you decide who you like best.

I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification.

love is just a history that they may prove and when your gone ill tell them my religion is you

I don't feel like I look like the other perfect little pop singers. I think I'm changing what people think is sexy.