"Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside."

"I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions."

"My mom and I are very close."

"To this day, some of my closest friends say, 'Gaga, you know, everything's great. You're a singer your dreams have come true.' But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you're growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they're true."

"When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music."

"It is a radiant truth that beauty in art is the harmony of spirit, intellect, and craft — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince."

"Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental installations and gigantic sculptures, should the need arise. It has arisen."