Lady Gaga has a very unjaded intelligence. It's brilliant, 'cause it's anti-snob.

In the past, it weighed on me because nobody in my family is gay. I had no role models so I had to find my own way.

I'm always calling my doctor because I'm constantly injuring myself while on the road, like tearing a ligament, blasting my ears or losing my voice. Plus, I'm a total hypochondriac.

New York is a bit of a dangerous place to me because you often leave in a blur.

I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

I think a big part of what has helped me move forward with the sport is my family. We're all so close together, and the support system has been amazing.

You live with your family for awhile, and then you move out into the world, and you still have your family; you just don't get to see them every night when you go home for dinner.

I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.