I'm supposed to be, I am an artist. Yes, I'm lonely. But I'm married to my loneliness.

Depression doesn't take away your talents - it just makes them harder to find.

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.

I remember watching the mascara tears flood the ivories and I thought, "It's OK to be sad." I've been trained to love my darkness.

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.

I study everything that I do to become better all the time at my craft. The beauty for me about being an artist is that the dream will never die because I'm not obsessed with material things and don't care about the money and don't care about the attention of the public but only the love of my fans. For me it's about keeping the dream alive of how much more devoted, how much more honest, how much better of an artist can I become? That's the only fear that I ever have, that the dream will die.

I'm already crazy. I'm a fearless person. I think it creeps up on you. I don't think it can be stopped. If my destiny is to lose my mind because of fame, then that's my destiny. But my passion still means more than anything.