Lady Gaga

I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.

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.

Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with because it forces us to judge ourselves.

My concerts are about me being very private in public but I'm very protective.

When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work it's not strange it's just Gaga.

I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.

Pop stars should not eat.

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

I like pushing boundaries.

Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.

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 feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.

I am an artist and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

I love imperfections.

In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

My mother always wanted to give back.

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.

I have never had plastic surgery and there are many pop singers who have.

I don't think I could live without hair makeup and styling let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.

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 think it's OK to be confident in yourself.

I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week, which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.

I was a strange loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

I don't like L.A. It's just not fun. I don't know why but I just don't get it. You have to drive to get everywhere and when it rains everybody freaks out.

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 don't like talking to celebrities.

I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

That is what fame is isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

I'm an inventor.

Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me and you call me Stefani you don't really know me at all.

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.