My talent matters more to me than the money does.

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

You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

I actually don't want a throne at all, because I don't view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.

I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

Being a woman in the pop world, sexuality is half poison and half liberation. What's the line? I don't have a line. I am the most sexually free woman on the planet, and I genuinely am empowered from a very honest place by my sexuality. What's more primal than sex? I mean, it's so honest. If I didn't think I had the talent to back that up, I wouldn't have done it.