Being a songwriter, you are accepting that this isn't about you. If you do want it to be about you, you're going to be really miserable.
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I won't do press anymore unless I can talk about the homophobia and let queer people know our ideas are mainstream.
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For the most part, it's straight white men running these labels and publishing companies.
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Gaga the person is much like Gaga the celebrity. She is very sweet, loyal, and funny with her fans, and she is very sweet, loyal, and funny with her friends. On stage, she is over-the-top, ridiculous, dirty, and genuine on stage, and she is very over-the-top, ridiculous, dirty, and genuine with her friends.
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My success happened pretty late in life. I can't even believe it happened.
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I was very lucky that my family really supported me in exploring my femininity when I was young, and so it was a joyous thing.
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Music spoke to me when I was young in such an intimate, empowering, magical way, and I think that music is already doing that for young queer kids.
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It's interesting to see the more femme that you present yourself, the more people sort of dehumanize you.
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I love to give the song away - it's so exciting - where, I think, a lot of younger songwriters, they struggle with that. And it's a big struggle, where they want the shine and they want people to know that it was their idea and it was their doing. But luckily, I've been through that, so I can just focus on helping other people do their thing.
