Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.

I was the arty girl, the theatre chick. I dressed differently and I came from a different social class from the other girls. I was more of an average schoolgirl with a cork. (referring to her school days)

My grandmother is basically blind, but she can make out the lighter parts, like my skin and hair. She says, “I can see you, because you have no pants on.” So I’ll continue to wear no pants so that my grandma can see me.

She [Donatella Versace] is iconic and powerful, yet people throw darts at her. She’s definitely provocative.

In this time of recession, people love this hair — it’s so nostalgic!

I don’t get body anxiety — I don’t eat.

You’re looking at the next Madonna — I’m telling you. The determination, that knowledge of who you are, what you want and what the people want. That’s her.

I think that everyone is looking for a song that really speaks to the joy in our souls and in our hearts and having a good time. “Just Dance” is just one of those records. It feels really good, and when you listen to it, it makes you feel good inside. It’s as simple as that. I don’t think it’s rocket science when it comes to the heart. I think it’s a heart theme song.

I don’t think a killer chorus ever hurt the world.

I used to write a lot of essays and analytical art papers. I was really into writing pieces about art, religion and social order. I’d look at pop art and politics and write essays. I don’t do that anymore, but I still think in that way. I applied that same kind of reckoning to the album. The album doesn’t say one thing or another about fame. It explores the different, shocking orifices of fame.

I love Andy Warhol, Damian Hearst, Jackson Pollock and Helmut Newton. Warhol gutted pop culture like a fish. It’s not my intention to make fun of pop culture; it’s my intention to review it.

If someone called me tomorrow and said: ‘We’ll give you 50 million dollars but you could never make music again’, I would tell them to fuck off and I would be poor and die alone with all my props.

Pop ate my heart.

I just want a good fuck – and some carbohydrates for this Valentine’s Day. Some good spaghetti and some good sex.

Paris and Nicky Hilton went to my school. They’re very pretty, and very, very clean. It’s impressive to be that perfect all the time. In commercial terms, they’ve been quite an influence on me.

I used to go-go dance and set G-strings on fire, stuff like that. I’ve changed my act a little now but it’s definitely still provocative. It began as more of a burlesque show. Those days will be back soon, don’t worry!

My ultimate goal is to work with fashion designers and do performance pieces on a runway show.

I am really inspired by the Italians like Gabbana, Versace and Gucci. But I am looking it in that way and trying to make my own.

I don’t really give a fuck at the end of the day. (referring to haters)

I used to get in trouble a lot for wearing very low-cut shirts and see-through stuff with bras. And there were definitely some girls that would, you know, drink in the cafeteria and shit like that, and they would get thrown out of school. I never got caught for anything like that. But we were definitely bad kids in a good environment. I mean, I was actually a very good student. I just sort of stuck out like a sore thumb – no different than today. But I value my education a lot. It’s interesting because even though in a social way, it was kind of a weird environment to grow up in, in a lot of ways it was great because I’m a really great musician as a result of it.

A friend of mine – who will remain nameless – who is a gay man, he actually taught me to put baby powder in my bangs when I get sweaty. It makes them look fabulous, because I get gnarly when I perform.

I did this the way you are supposed to. I played every club in New York City and I bombed in every club and then killed it in every club and I found myself as an artist. I learned how to survive as an artist, get real, and how to fail and then figure out who I was as singer and performer. And, I worked hard.

It is my simple pop song about finding someone new and breaking up with the old boyfriend. (about her song, ‘Eh Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say’)

That time, and that song, was just me trying to figure things out. Once I grabbed the reigns of my artistry, I fell in love with that more than I did with the party life. (about her song, ‘Beautiful Dirty Rich’)

I absolutely wanted it to be a reflection of my lifestyle – but through a more pop lens. That’s sort of my whole idea: I really want to filter all of my ideas through a pop, commercial lens in order to reach more people – and kind of make a contribution, you know? And for this video, I wanted it to be a house party instead of just doing a typical night club video, which is I think what one might expect from hearing the song. So I wanted to give something that was a bit of a contrast and said something about me and included some of my iconic references – and was also just a really good video that kept it about the song. (about the music video for ‘Just Dance’)

On first listen, ‘Paparazzi’ might come off as a love song to cameras, and in all honestly, on one level it is about wooing the paparazzi and wanting fame. But, it’s not to be taken completely seriously. It’s about everyone’s obsession with that idea. But, it’s also about wanting a guy to love you and the struggle of whether you can have success or love or both. (about her song, ‘Paparazzi’)

I’m a huge fan of Kanye West’s record. When he first came out this year with ‘Love Lockdown’, I wasn’t really sure, and I listened to it and said, “Gosh, he’s really going in a different direction.” But it’s very kind of Phil Collins futuristic, and the deeper and deeper I got into the album, the more brilliant I thought it was.

I’m really free-spirited about love and sexuality, which I think is apparent in my music and even the visuals, which are all very androgynous. But the minute you say something about who you are, people think you’re just playing the ‘edgy card’ and that’s not what I want people to think of me as. I want them to think fashion, pop culture, avant-garde, fearless – the girl who brought the straight boys into the gay club.

‘The Fame’ is about how anyone can feel famous. Pop culture is art. It doesn’t make you cool to hate pop culture, so I embraced it and you hear it all over ‘The Fame’. But, it’s a sharable fame. I want to invite you all to the party. I want people to feel a part of this lifestyle.

I look at those artists as icons in art. It’s not just about the music. It’s about the performance, the attitude, the look; it’s everything. And, that is where I live as an artist and that is what I want to accomplish. (in reference to Queen and David Bowie)

Britney certainly doesn’t need any freakin’ tips from me! Britney Spears is the queen of pop. I was learning from her.

I’m married to Kanye, I love and admire him so much. As I say, we’re married.

I’m a single girl. I like to have a good time. I just sleep with the guys in the band all the time because it’s easier.

I truthfully adore Kanye. I always poke fun at him and joke around. We have a lovely creative relationship. He’s so sweet. I can’t say enough good things. He’s undeniably brilliant.

I can’t give any details, but it will be one of the most important moments in music ever.

I’ve gone bankrupt about four times now. My manager wants to shoot me.

Every dollar I earn goes on the show. Now we’re finally getting to a place where it’s not bankruptcy. Then again, with another tour coming up soon I’ll probably be homeless again

I think I have seven tattoos. I’m thinking of getting a Botticelli-esque version of the Virgin Mary on my back next. I’m very interested in body art.

It’s been a very remarkable year, And I feel very blessed. I lived an isolated lifestyle before the media. I lived a life of solitude and loyalty and commitment to my work. I just don’t prioritize my life in the same way that other people do. The only thing that matters is my music and my performance.

I am inspired by so many things. My favorite book, ‘Letters to a Young Poet.’ I was inspired by Helmut Newton for the ‘Paparazzi’ video. I’m inspired by fashion. I’m inspired by the moonlight. I’m inspired by sex and pornography and slasher films

I love all designers. I appreciate a life devoted to fashion, Right now, I’m having a very strong obsession mostly with clothing found in sex shops. I would venture to say that all that clothing was designed by gay men.

It’s not just a mask, it’s a contemporary art piece

My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I’m very protective. My apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage – they’re just not stages you’re allowed to see. When you let a bunch of people in there, they [mess] with that energy and it becomes a circus. Put it another way: Everybody wants me to show my [privates] to the world all the time. And the truth is, I don’t have to

I’m not a go-out-and-party girl. I’m actually taking every minute I have to myself to write music and be in the studio right now.

I should imagine that most pop stars don’t experience that kind of gesture. I mean, it was a really big tattoo all the way down his arm. Pretty rock ‘n’ roll!

This fan got this amazing tattoo on his arm, this massive Lady Gaga tattoo that was very intricate and very detailed and in it I was wearing this crystal outfit – but this thing was like an art piece. I was so flattered because tattoos are for life

Sebastian is incredible. He’s so amazingly talented, Very kind. He likes it when my nip***s fall out. It’s all of the things I look for in a good photographer.

I want to do a fashion story so bad, fashion is my whole life.

They are so nice and very sweet and I am very grateful to them because they have taken me all around the world and a lot of people found out about me thanks to those girls so I really can’t say (which Doll had hit on her).

I don’t like to kiss and tell, the girls and I are very close!

I’m dressed conservatively today, I should take off my pants just to freak them out!

Right now I’m having a very strong obsession with clothing found in sex shops, so I’m going to take that to mean you’re down with S&M. Working off that thesis, I’d like to verbally assault you for a minute and say that your whole sartorial shock for the sake of shock schtick is getting old. Real quick. Like Robin Williams in “Jack.”

Because that’s your fame. That’s where your fame lives… my luminosity. My constant flashing light. It’s in my ability to know what I make is great. I know it is, I know it’s great, and it’s that sureness. That sureness is infectious.

I think what they’re more genuinely drawing upon is the strong ambitious part more than anything. I think that’s what – and I hope I’m not being hyperbolic – but I would like to think that’s what I share with her more than anything, is my ambition, and my strength

I went to art school, I studied pop culture, I know everything about music and iconography, pop, cultural and religious, I’m self-manufactured. . .. (I look) at it not as poison or lowbrow, but looking at it in a very highbrow way, and self-making myself to be a powerful visionary and say something that will genuinely speak to people.

I think it’s a terrible message to young people that you have to ruin your life in order to make music, because I don’t think you have to, But it’s just the way my brain and my heart and my obsession for love and art were functioning at the time

I’m kind of the odd person out in general, I don’t really like hanging out with celebrities and I don’t fit into that world, as I sort of keep to myself. So in a way, even in the new group of cool kids and the pop music world, I’m still the odd girl, but I’m OK with it; I like being the odd girl now, it’s where I live.

I don’t appreciate when people call me Stefani, because if they don’t know me, I feel like it’s their way of acting like they do … they’re completely ignoring my creative existence… (Lady Gaga) is who I am. Me and my hair bow, we go to bed together. She sleeps where I sleep.

My realization of Gaga was five years ago, but Gaga’s always been who I am

I am so often puzzled (by journalists). Sometimes they go, ‘So what’s this all about? . . . What do you look like when you go home? Do you dress like this all the time?’ It’s rude! It’s not nice,

Right now the only thing that I am concerned with in my life is being an artist. I had to suppress it for so many years in high school because I was made fun of but now I’m completely insulated in my box of insanity and I can do whatever I like.

There are times when it can be a lot to deal with but always when I get up in the morning I try to find that very joyful place that reminds me that I would die if someone took it all away. If someone did that I wouldn’t be a person any more.

I’m not a go-out-and-party girl. I’m actually taking every minute I have to myself to write music and be in the studio right now, I don’t have much time to relax but I don’t have much time for celebrities either, so I’m happy,

I’m obsessed with 1950s science fiction monster movies. The inspiration from the album comes from the sort of dark infatuation with monsters and apocalypse and darkness and theater. So you will see in this album, a more scary Lady Gaga, if I wasn’t already freaking you out enough

You can say the philosophy of Gaga is fashion-music-technology-performance art. It’s an interactive experience for the audience, I design everything together and New York is the nexus of my inspiration. I was born and raised in New York City. I am inspired by street fashion and the attitude. Andy Warhol is a huge inspiration of mine and I have a lot of Pop Art elements in the show. I am so passionate about my music.

I love the Jonas Brothers, they’re very talented. I met them once. I’d like to have a foursome with them,

Even though I have my days when I want to have sex with very good-looking men, I’m devoted to my work.

I’m not riding around in the sand glistening naked in the sun in my videos, They have a very clear message. I have not made a career out of being this incredibly beautiful supermodel of a woman, that was plucked off of a television series. I’m a decidedly eccentric young girl with a weird style who changed people’s minds.

I don’t make my videos for television – I make them for art, So I do whatever video I think is best for the story and the vision of the song. And then whether or not someone plays it is up to them

The ability for a young woman who may not be the most popular girl in school or the most beautiful or the best at everything to bust her arse and never give up and make something of herself. So if that’s not a good message, I don’t know what else is.

You don’t even need me, I am just a blonde bitch in a bunch of bubbles but I’m OK with that. Shall we have a little Brisbane singalong?

I’m very bossy. I don’t move on. I vomit in the bathroom before every show. I can scream my head off if I see one light fixture out. I’m very detailed – every minute of the show has got to be perfect. I want to grab the audience by the balls. This show has made me quite mental. But my focus is on the work. Not on the celebration