I feel that if I can show my demise artistically to the public, I can somehow cure my own legend.

I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.

If there was some sort of mathematical equation for beauty, I don’t know if I would be the algorithm. I’m not a supermodel. That’s not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what’s happening on the outside.

Equality cannot be reached if fought in a divisive way.

It's sort of like my past is an unfinished painting, and as the artist of that painting, I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again.

When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.

You have to fail and then get better. Then you have to fail again, and then get even better.