Lady Gaga

"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."

"Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad."

"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."

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

"I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need."

"I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference."

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

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

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

"I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with."

"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."

"I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, 'cause I'm very smart."

"I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times."

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

"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."

"It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family."

"Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us."

"Pop music will never be low brow."

"Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history... this is what makes you strong. It's not looking out that's going to do that - it's looking in."

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

"The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head."

"The dieting wars have got to stop."

"Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all."

"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."

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

"When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be."

"When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship."

"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."