I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga. They said I was very theatrical... So they said, you're Gaga.

It would be so helpful for the straight community to see men in powerful positions coming out and saying "I'm gay" so they don't have these preconceived notions that all gay men are smarmy idiots living on the street or whatever it is people think of gay men. I think it would be really helpful and productive.

There is a very modest side to me too. How far away from me is the image? It's about 20 steps away.

I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.

Diva is a female version of a hustler.

Everyone calls me Bruno; they don't ever call me Peter - that was just my government name.