Los Angeles, Oct 16 (IANS): Singer Lady Gaga says her stage performances move her boyfriend Taylor Kinney to tears.

Gaga and Kinney, the 33-year-old Chicago Fire actor, have been dating since 2011 after he starred in her “You & I” music video.

"He's the first man that I have dated that, when I sing onstage, he cries. That means more to me than anything," the 28-year-old pop star has told The Times, reports eonline.com.

"Kinney is supportive of everything I do. He loves me from the inside out. And he is completely blind to the way that I dress, my creative process as it is... he knows me as the Italian-American girl my mother and father gave birth to," she added.

Gaga is very much in love with Kinney, and hopes to have a family with him someday -- and that too a big one!

"I want to have tons of kids, actually... I think at least three. I really want to have a family and I really want to nurture my children and inspire them," she said.

"To be honest, having my own kids will be like having three little monsters with me all the time. They probably won't be fans. They'll probably like hate my music, who knows? I want to live a family life. I grew up with a very strong family and I just cannot imagine not having a normal nuclear family," she added.