Lady Gaga

We are not actually equal - humanity - if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

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.

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.

When I wake up in the morning I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.

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.

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

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.

I just want to keep writing music.

Pop music will never be low brow.

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

Then when I'm in these relationships with people who are also creative or creative in their own way what happens is the attraction is initially there and it's all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.

I decided to pursue music so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.

People want to tear me down they were going to knife me anyway.

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

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 want kids. I want a soccer team and I want a husband.

I work very hard but when God opens that door for you - when life opens that door for you I should say - I think it's important to be giving to return the love back.