My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me.

I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.

Women are strong and fragile. Women are beautiful and ugly. We are soft spoken and loud, all at once.

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

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

To this day, some of my closest friends say, 'Gaga, you know, everything's great. You're a singer; your dreams have come true.' But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you're growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they're true.

O, say does that star-spangled flag of pride yet wave? O'er the land of the free, and the home for the gay!