"As soon as I go out into the world, I belong, in a way, to everyone else. It's legal to follow me. It's legal to stalk me at the beach. And I can't call the police or ask them to leave."

"What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous."

"I love my daddy. My daddy's everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad."

"Art is a lie. And every day, I kill to make it true."

"I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time."

"The greatest applause I should ever receive is the whisper of my children saying, 'Momma, you're a warrior.'"

"For me, it's always been about trying to do something that's more than just music. It's about trying to change the world."

"A girl's got to use what she's given and I'm not going to make a guy drool the way a Britney video does. So I take it to extremes. I don't say I dress sexily on stage - what I do is so extreme. It's meant to make guys think: 'I don't know if this is sexy or just weird."

"Don't be a drag.Just be a queen."

"I'm not a supermodel. That's not what I do."

"Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy."

"My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there."

"I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid."

"Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love - you know, things I don't care about anymore."

"You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing."

"My mom and I are very close."

"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."

"There's nothing wrong with loving who you are."

"All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they'll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad's restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you."

"If you dont have any shadows you're not in the light"

"I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what."

"Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner."

"I want to make a difference in the world. The only way to do that is to be different."

"I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element."

"It doesn't matter who you are, or where you come from, or how much money you've got in your pocket. You have your own destiny and your own life ahead of you."

"And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time."

"Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are."

"The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls - Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car."

"You define beauty for yourself, society doesn't define your beauty."

"Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world."

"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 idea that we can't be free is not factual. It's an illusion."

"I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms."

"Joanne' is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous."

"I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way."

"It's not about trying to look thin, it's about trying to be healthy."

"To this day, some of my closest friends say, 'Gaga, you know, everything's great. You're a singer; your dreams have come true.' But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you're growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they're true."

"I'm already crazy. I'm a fearless person. I think it creeps up on you. I don't think it can be stopped. If my destiny is to lose my mind because of fame, then that's my destiny. But my passion still means more than anything."

"Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body."

"In terms of my involvement in 'don't ask, don't tell' and marriage equality and anti - bullying and social emotional learning in schools - these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans."

"I suppose that I didn't really know what I was signing up for when I decided to be a pop singer. My plan was to conquer the world and then be myself."

"You have to stop crying, and you have to go kick some ass."

"I'm a little bit naked, but that's okay."

"Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside."

"I have to be on such a strict diet constantly."

"History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid."

"It's not about winning. But it's about not giving up. If you have a dream, fight for it."

"It's cooler to be strong."

"I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines."

"I used to walk down the street like I was a fucking 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."