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 like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.

Sophistication isn't what you wear or who you know, or pushing people down to get you where you want to go... soon your gonna find stealing other people toys on the playground won't make you many friends.

You can't make old friends. You either have them or you don't.

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