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

I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don't live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.

I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I love what I do. I believe in the message. There's no stopping. I didn't create the fame, the fame created me.

My fashion is about the urban woman in the year 3000. I think about obscure, weird things and try to create a world around them.

Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.

I just want to be clear before we decide to do this together: I'm gay. My music is gay. My show is gay. And I love that it's gay. And I love my gay fans, and they're all going to be coming to our show. And it's going to remain gay.