Gaga and Stefani are my nicknames. I guess when people meet me for the first time and call me Stefani, it bothers me. Because it's something that's reserved for only the people who are closest to me. It's not because I don't like my given name; it's that I became somebody else. I became somebody else for a reason, you know. This is part of what my message is - you can become whoever you want to be, to escape your past.

Yes, I am a pirate two hundred years too late.

I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.

Everyone calls me Bruno; they don't ever call me Peter - that was just my government name.

I thought up the name Queen early on. It couldn't have been King; it doesn't have the same ring or aura as Queen.

In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.