Lady Gaga

I like black because it is a vacant space.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.

I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

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.

When there's justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it's okay for me to say those things.

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

My mother always wanted to give back.

Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times.

In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.

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

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