inhabiting her creation

Lady Gaga, The New YorkerStefani Joanne Germanotta: “I don’t like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.”

“If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don’t really know me at all.”

“A year from now, I could go away, and people might say, ‘Gosh, what ever happened to that girl who never wore pants?’

“Rule the world! What’s life worth living if you don’t rule it?”