I am the excuse to explore your identity. To be exactly who you are and to feel unafraid. To not judge yourself, to not hate yourself.

I think it's absolutely a blessing when you just know what your purpose is and your destiny. I don't think it's a curse at all.

What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.

I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

This is one image. This is one moment. This is one statement. ARTPOP

I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we've all heard about before.

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.