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.

We need fantasy to survive because reality is too difficult.

A year from now, I could go away, and people might say, 'Gosh, what ever happened to that girl who never wore pants?' But how wonderfully memorable 30 years from now, when they say, 'Do you remember Gaga and her bubbles?' Because, for a minute, everybody in that room will forget every sad, painful thing in their lives, and they'll just live in my bubble world.

I have kids who buy tickets for my show... How could I take their money and ignore their problems?

I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.

The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.