I used to walk down the street like I was a super star... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth.

I would stare into the bright lights and imagine I could do anything. Be anything. And I would tell myself it would be me up there one day.

I don't view myself as outrageous - that's not the intention. Its to be more and more original.

Gaga and Stefani are my nicknames. I guess when people meet me for the first time and call me Stefani, it bothers me. Because it's something that's reserved for only the people who are closest to me. It's not because I don't like my given name; it's that I became somebody else. I became somebody else for a reason, you know. This is part of what my message is - you can become whoever you want to be, to escape your past.

I have to be really honest: People who say they can't escape the paparazzi are full of sh*t. Let me just be the artist to throw everybody under the bus. I don't spend lots of money on houses or lots of cars, but I do spend money on security and they never find me.

I dont really ever compare myself to other people, I dont even measure myself in terms of anyone but myself.

I´m not a wandering slave, I am a woman of choice