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.

If I can be a leader, I will.

I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.

'Cause you can't buy a house in heaven!

I remember the first show I had there were about 3 people, at least there was somebody. The next one was about 30. Then a couple years later there were 300 people and before I knew it there were 3,000... Then one day, I opened my eyes and there were 300,000 singing all my lyrics.

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

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