Alex Sim Wise: What’s your perfect Valentine’s?
Lady GaGa: a good fuck
and some carbohydrates with some like spaghetti
and like good sex

“In the deepest hour of the night I confess to myself three things; I would die if I was forbidden to write, forbidden to love, or forbidden to fashion….love each other, and celebrate the art and lifestyle of music.”

“I’m married to my music”

“Poker Face is about “poker-facing” with my sexuality. When I used to make love to my old boyfriend I used to think about women”

“When you do something great, and somebody says ‘I like that’, you should look at them and say, ‘Thank you I worked very hard on this and it’s really great’, because it the only way to get that sharable sense of value in your life; that “Fame” that has nothing to do with cameras and being a celebrity. I couldn’t give a damn about celebrities, but truthfully if you don’t honor your own work, you’re nothing. So honor your own work and anything that you do…”

“I have fans who just love my music and don’t know I write it and enjoy it shallowly � and that’s OK too. I think art and music should be just as powerful if you drink it shallow as if you drink it deep.”

“Black girls, white girls, skinny girls, fat girls tall girls, small girls, I’m calling all girls. Everyone report to the dance floor. It’s your chance for, a little romance or butt squeezin’; it’s the season just go ‘aah aah aah aah’, it’s so appeasing!”

I want your ugly
I want your disease
I want your everything
As long as it’s free
I want your love ~Lyrics from “Bad Romance”

You know that I want you
(‘Cause I’m a freak bitch baby!)
And you know that I need you
I want a bad, bad romance ~Lyrics from “Bad Romance”

I’m in the bedroom
With tissues and when
I know you’re outside banging
Then I won’t let you in
‘Cause it’s a hard life
With love in the world
And I’m a hard girl
Loving me’s like chewing on pearls ~Lyrics from “I Like it Rough”

All we care about is runway models
Cadillacs and liquor bottles
Give me something I wanna be
Retro glamour Hollywood, yes, we live for the
Fame, doin’ it for the fame ~Lyrics from “The Fame”

All we care about is pornographic girls
On film and body plastic
Give me something I wanna see

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.
Lady Gaga

I’ve had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year’s worth of rent.
Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don’t really know me at all.
Lady Gaga

Pop stars should not eat.
Lady Gaga

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.
Lady Gaga

“Pop music will never be low brow.”

“The Fame is about how anyone can feel famous. Pop culture is art. It doesn’t make you cool to hate pop culture, so I embraced it and you hear it all over The Fame. But, it’s a sharable fame. I want to invite you all to the party. I want people to feel a part of this lifestyle.”

“I really loved writing “Quicksand” for Britney Spears.”

“I don’t think a killer chorus ever hurt the world.”

“Perez Hilton is brilliant to me. Because he’s taken something that people don’t think is valid, don’t think is important, and he’s made them obsessed with it. People are obsessed with him. They’re obsessed with his site, they’re obsessed with what he does. They love him. They all love him. They love you, they hate you, what you don’t want is indifference. The day that I put a record out that nobody says a damn thing about, that’s bad.”

“She’s [Christina Aguilera] is such a huge star and if anything I should send her flowers, because a lot of people in America didn’t know who I was until that whole thing happened. It really put me on the map in a way.”

“ Retrosexual – I came out with that a long time ago. Me and my buddy Tom were hanging out one day in the studio and we were talking about metrosexuals, because he had bought a pair of boots and I said ‘Those are very metrosexual.’ And he was like ‘I don’t know, I think they’re kind of retro.’ And I said ‘So you’re retrosexual.’ It was kind of a joke. The more I thought about it – I’m so obsessed with all things retro, the 70s and 80s. I don’t know, that word just kind of flew out of my mouth one day, and it stuck with me. ”

“I think that fashion and music go hand-in-hand, and they always should. It’s the artist’s job to create imagery that matches the music—something powerful that will really grab the audience and create a memorable impression. I think they’re very intertwined, and I’m part of that too.”

“I never saw Paris [Hilton], she was older than me, and it’s funny that the press always write that I went to school with the Hilton sisters, but I actually only went with Nicky.”

“I’m touring with the Pussycat Dolls. I love Nicole and they are all so sweet and so sexy. I’m very lucky to be on tour with such humble young women.”

“I’m not trying to prove to anybody that I’m going to be here for 30 years. You either are or you’re not. You either have passion for it, or you don’t. It’s either important for you to stop, and buy a condo, and have babies, and marry a rich actor, or not do any of that, and continue to make music and art, and die alone. Which is what I’ll probably do.”

“If somebody said to me, ‘What you do isn’t art,’ I would say, They’re right. Yes it is, no it isn’t, absolutely, perhaps, it’s irrelevant, it’s important…that’s what this is all about, really. For me, more than anything, I want to do something important. It’s gotta be important. If it’s coming out of my mouth, if it’s going on my body, if it’s going on TV, it better be important.”

“[For the fans] I would just want to say thank you, I love you, I appreciate so much the support that you all give me. You listeners, the ones who found me first are, I believe, the future of great art thinkers. Because anyone that’s found me now I really think is grabbing on to the ideas that I have, more than anything. ”