Why I Love Lady Gaga

On pop

Somebody shot it in the face. I don't know who, but it died. And I want it to come back (2008)

On being an artist

Even though I sing about panties and pornography and fame, I take it all very seriously (2009)

Asked what food she dislikes

I'm a pop singer - I don't like food at all (2009)

On hygienic celebrities

Paris and Nicky Hilton went to my school. They're very pretty, and very, very clean (2009)

On her grandmother

She is basically blind, but she can make out the lighter parts, like my skin and hair. She says: "I can see you, because you have no pants on." So I'll continue to wear no pants so my grandma can see me (2009)

On song-writing

It's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about (2009)

Defining her sexuality

I am the most sexually free woman on the planet (2009)

On her skin tone

I'm fiercely tanned and very orange! (2009)

On the best-ever life lesson given her by a gay man

To put baby powder in my fringe when I get sweaty (2008)

On motivation

My mother taught me that I was capable of anything. And I believed her with a tremendous heart filled with delusion (2009)

Seeing a child imitating her on Youtube

I'm not sure how I feel about a six-year-old dancing to a song about being wasted, but she is so cute it doesn't matter (2008)

On Amy Winehouse

I will always have a very deep love for her. Because of Amy, very strange girls like me get to go to prom with very good-looking guys (2009)

On her image

The assumption is that my eccentricity is not who I really am, but it is. I have lost my mind (2009)

Insisting no one calls her by her real name

Even when I make love, they say "Gaga" (2008)

Asked her real name

Walter (2009)

On tour, updating her Twitter on her blackberry

Mental. Vomit. Bubble dreams (2009)

Looking ahead

It's kind of my secret desire, when I'm, like, 55, to become a QVC girl, selling domestic vacuums (2009)