All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they'll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad's restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.

Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life.

So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.

'Born this Way' is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.

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.