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.

I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.

Peace. it does not mean to be in a place where there is no trouble, noise, or hard work. it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart

Never bully anyone because Karma has everyone’s address and a motherf**king stamp!

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

I am a feminist. I reject wholeheartedly the way we are taught to perceive women. The beauty of women, how a woman should act or behave. Women are strong and fragile. Women are beautiful and ugly. We are soft-spoken and loud, all at once. There is something mind-controlling about the way we're taught to view women.

I think there are different kinds of fame. There's fame which is plastic and about paparazzi and money and being rich, and then there's the fame, which is when no one knows who you are but everyone wants to know who you are.