I feel Anglo-American.

I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America.

I really love the culture of hip-hop.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

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

I never have really become accustomed to the ‚John.‘ Nobody ever really calls me John… I’ve always been Duke or Marion or John Wayne. It’s a name that goes well together, and it’s like one word – John Wayne.

I don’t think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

I don’t want to be called a point guard, but I can’t stop it.

This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he’s Frank and in Chicago he’s Ernest.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn’t.

I don’t look at myself as a commodity, but I’m sure a lot of people have.

If you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.

I don’t blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they’ll realize there’s more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.

What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I’m not who I say I am when it comes to my faith – something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

I’ve been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I’m driving, I hear I’m a moron. I like being a moron.

The voice I use is a very old hardware speech synthesizer made in 1986. I keep it because I have not heard a voice I like better and because I have identified with it.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

I’m German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn’t exist any more.

Puerto Rico’s relationship with music is everything. It’s an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

I’m thrilled to have Corona join me on my ‚X100PRE‘ Tour to give my fans a taste of Corona Estereo Beach and showcase their support of Latin music. It’s not solely about the music – it’s about the culture, creativity, and contributing to the movement that connects us all together.

Bob Marley isn’t my name. I don’t even know my name yet.

Jesus isn’t lettin‘ you off the hook. The Scriptures don’t let you off the hook so easily… When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher‘, ‚Prophet‘, ‚Really nice guy‘ … this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.

Latinos are Republican. They just don’t know it yet.

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you’re hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

The reason why I wear gold – I wear gold for three reasons. One, when Jesus was born, three wise men came from the east: one brought frankincense, one brought myrrh, the other one brought gold. The second reason I wear gold is I can afford it. The third reason I wear it, it’s symbolic of my African heritage.

I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

I’m very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That’s my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it’s not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

It’s a very strange thing being recognized or looked upon as someone special.

When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to have a sense of the appeal of the country and its people – along with despair about its future.

Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it’s popular, it’s not culture.

I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.

America is just downright mean.

I don’t really regard myself as a political figure.

With my childhood, it’s a wonder I’m not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

In this country, it doesn’t make any difference where you were born. It doesn’t make any difference who your parents were. It doesn’t make any difference if, like me, you couldn’t even speak English until you were in your twenties.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

About the idea of a clash between cultures, between civilisations, I don’t believe in it. It’s something some political leaders tried to use, and that the media tried and are still trying to sell us, in order to simplify the world and their work.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him.

The arts don’t exist in isolation.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

There’s Madeleine, and then there’s ‚Madeleine Albright‘. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become ‚Madeleine Albright‘ it doesn’t go away.

All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

The little man is still a man.

Japan’s very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don’t think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that’s already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I’m someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

Woman’s at best a contradiction still.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.