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.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

Friends must always be treated as if one day they might be enemies.

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