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.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

There's gonna be times when people tell you that you can't live your dreams, this is what I tell them, Never Say Never.

There are three people in yourself:Who people think you are, Who you think you are, and who you really are.

I don't want to be some skinny mini with my tits out. I really don't want to do it and I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about.

People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward.