Our identity in the world must change from Scam India to Skill India.

While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

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.

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

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.

If you're trying too hard to be the girl next door, you're not going to be.