To everyone who says this is wrong to feel like this say, 'I was born this way baby.

Why spend your whole life trying to be somebody that you're not? It's so much more fun to be yourself **** what everybody says.

Writing a record is like dating a few men at once. You take them to the same restaurants to see if they measure up, and at some point you decide who you like best.

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.

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music?... Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time - the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.

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.