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

We were on for six years. We were in syndication for a while. It had its run. I still see the people from ‚Mr. Belvedere,‘ too. We stay in touch.

In ‚Changeling,‘ I tried to show something you’d never see nowadays – a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.

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

You’re looking at a middle-class guy. I am who I am.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries – the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.

Why am I a star? It can’t be because of looks.

In my heart, I’m just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I’m not a rich man.

I’ve been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.

I always loved that old song ‚Banks of the Ohio‘ – it was always such a man’s song, so I’ve always wanted to record it.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

I’d like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

I never wanted to be Marilyn – it just happened. Marilyn’s like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

Everywhere I go, the kids call me ‚the book lady.‘ The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the ‚book lady‘ title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I’ve done something good with my life and with my success.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

I’ve always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

It’s hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

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.

A good song never gets old.

Really, who you are is defined by the people who you know – not even the people that you know, but the people you spend time with and the people that you love and the people that you work with. I guess we show your friends in your profile, but that’s kind of different from the information you put in your profile.

I have never felt that the one thing that I am ‚known for‘ is what I am.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.

I don’t really like to call myself a brand, and I don’t like to think of myself as a brand. I’m a singer, a songwriter, a musician and a performer. And an actress, and all the other things that I do. When you add it all together, some might call it a brand, but that’s not my focus.

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.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

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

My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my ‚blackness‘ than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don’t belong.

I’m the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It’s a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don’t like – and the fact that it’s not reversible.

Because I’m small, I’ve been called things from ‚Happy Feet‘ to ‚Little Face.‘

I don’t consider myself to be that credulous.

There was a while when I was feeling like, ‚Damn, if I’d just been born black, I would not have to go through all this‘.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

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

India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.

Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don’t belong anymore to anyone, that I’m not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.

‚Doo-wop‘ is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo-wop music.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.

It’s very unnatural to be someone for so many people. But of course it’s very nice.

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

Years and years ago, I did a game based on ‚Hitchhiker’s Guide‘ with a company called Infocom, which was a great company. They were doing witty, intelligent, literate games based on text.