More education for women. More jobs for women. More equal opportunities for women. More women to be taken seriously. And I think more than anything we wish to be heard and not to be shut down. I think this is a good thing to think about for any community; what is important is that our voices be heard and not swallowed in an abyss of history.

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 think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

No matter gay, straight or bi, lesbian, transgendered life, I'm on the right track baby I was born to survive.

I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.

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