"I wouldn't say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do."

"I'm on the right track, baby. I was born this way."

"My new album that I'm creating, which is finished pretty much, was written with this new instinctual energy that I've developed getting to know my fans. They protect me, so now it's my destiny to protect them."

"If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next."

"Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses, 'cause we were born this way!"

"I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly."

"I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way."

"I want to inspire people. I want someone to look at me and say, 'Because of you, I didn't give up.'"

"For being different, it's easy. But to be unique, it's a complicated thing."

"I want women and men to feel empowered by a deeper and more psychotic part of themselves. The part they're always trying desperately to hide. I want that to become something that they cherish."

"I remember watching the mascara tears flood the ivories and I thought, 'It's OK to be sad.' I've been trained to love my darkness."

"I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job."

"I've always been famous, it's just no one knew it yet."

"Your insecurities are what make you different and what make you who you are."

"So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool."

"You have to be unique and different and shine in your own way."

"I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions."

"I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future."

"I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving."

"In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny."

"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."

"A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I'd die for my fans."

"I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big."

"'Born this Way' is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud."

"Gay marriage is going to happen. It must."

"My friends joke that I'm dead until I get onstage. I'm dead right now as you're speaking to me."

"When you leave here tonight, you know how you feel and what you believe in. And that's how I feel every single day. I want the best for humanity."

"Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead."

"What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love."

"Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad. I've always cared about my clothes and my shoes."

"I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way."

"Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore."

"In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'"

"I don't like to be put in a box, let alone stay in it."

"Clinical psychology tells us arguably that trauma is the ultimate killer.Memories r not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics. they can be lost forever. 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."

"So many will try to destroy me. So many, over and over, coming in periods of greatness. But in this period, I cannot be broken: GAGAKLEIN."

"You have to be unique, and different, and shine in your own way."

"All that ever holds somebody back, I think, is fear. For a minute I had fear. [Then] I went into the [dressing] room and shot my fear in the face."

"You can be surrounded by people, and still be lonely. You can be understood by people, and still feel unknown."

"I'm really happy and had such an amazing time performing at Super Bowl - wish I could relive it all over again."

"Believe in yourself and you're unstoppable."

"When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time."

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

"I'm always saying something about art and music and fame. That's why you don't ever catch me in a T-shirt unless I'm in bed."

"Do not be afraid to be you. Because that is your greatest gift."

"The ultimate accessory is the one that reflects your heart."

"I want to be remembered for the furrow on my brow that says, 'What hasn't been done?'"

"You can be whoever you choose to be on the Internet. It's so important to keep your private life private, but at the same time, we're all human."

"Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues."

"I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness."