I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I love what I do. I believe in the message. There's no stopping. I didn't create the fame, the fame created me.

I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga. They said I was very theatrical... So they said, you're Gaga.

I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff.

My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I'm very protective.

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.

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.