When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.

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.

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can't date him. It can't even be considered.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Sisters make the best friends in the world.

With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better.