I'm not interested, Larry, in being a perfect, plastic pop singer that looks great in bikinis and is on the cover of every magazine. I'm more interested in helping my fans to love who they are, and helping them to reject prejudice and reject those things that they're taught from society to not like themselves, to feel like freaks, that they're not wanted.

I would rather die than have my fans see me without a pair of heels on. And that's show business.

You have to be unique, and different, and shine in your own way.

My father [Joe Germanotta] opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.

I do not accept any less than someone just as real, as fabulous!

It's not really cool any more to have sex all the time. It's cooler to be strong and independent.

There is no oil so thick as to destroy the imagination.