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

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

I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.

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

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

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

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

The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

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've had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.

I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.

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

No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.

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.

I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.

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.

I'm really happy and had such an amazing time performing at Super Bowl - wish I could relive it all over again.

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.

The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music... Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time - the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.

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.

I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?

I like black because it is a vacant space.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.

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.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'