I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga. They said I was very theatrical... So they said, you're Gaga.

So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.

I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.

You can be whoever you choose to become in the future, just do it. Just see it and visualize it and every day of your life project that about yourself.

I don't dress any particular way to impress anyone or market myself for my music. It's actually who I am.

Be brave and celebrate with us your 'perceived flaws,' as society tells us. May we make our flaws famous, and thus redefine the heinous.

I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.