When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

Do you know the feeling, when your heart is so hurt, that you could feel the blood dripping?

I have a whole second act of ARTPOP and I love it.

If I can be a leader, I will.

I don't want to sound presumptuous, but I've made it my goal to revolutionize pop music. The last revolution was launched by Madonna 25 years ago

People ask me why I wear veils. I reply, I am mourning. Mourning what? Well I figure something shitty must be going on somewhere.

A girl’s got to use what she’s given and I’m not going to make a guy drool the way a Britney video does. So I take it to extremes. I don’t say I dress sexily on stage - what I do is so extreme. It’s meant to make guys think: ‘I don’t know if this is sexy or just weird.