"I think that gay marriage is something that will happen and something that must happen. We are not equal and we will only be equal once we allow everyone to love freely. What The Pope thinks of homosexuality… whatever. Nobody cares, what he thinks does not interest the world, just those who follow and love him. Not every person with a belief or a religion believe in the view of one person."

"The arresting image of a giant Gaga being scaled, Lilliputian-style, by a pack of muscled men required the construction of a 300-foot-long, nearly 50-foot-tall sculpture of the singer’s body on a Paramount soundstage. In one of our meetings, Gaga said, ‘Wouldn’t it be amazing if we had like 50 Steven Klein models crawling all over me?’ It was like the idea of everybody wanting a piece of you. That’s how that became a reality. The shoot turned out to be quite complicated. It was one of the biggest crane shots the crew had ever done, and we did a motion-control track of her body that was filmed simultaneously. In a more violent director’s cut (there are no clear plans on when it will be released), she actually kills all the boys, like a massacre. The overall theme is about the subject of fame, the dark and light side of it, the pleasures and the pains of fame. Fame can hold you as a prisoner in certain ways."