In an interview with Q magazine, the wacky singer revealed that she would write songs when she was under the influence because she found inspiration in “dark places”.
Gaga said: “(Using drugs) I really figured out the art I wanted to make and was inspired. Some people find inspiration in dark places. I guess I'm one of them.
“What always made me different is that if I was doing drugs I was also making music. I wasn't just doing drugs.”
The Paparazzi singer didn't limit her drug use when she was just writing songs, because the star took the illegal substances when she did some of her early performances.
“At the beginning I was doing performance art in handmade leather and leopard bikinis talking about oral sex and Andy Warhol and heavy
"My mum was like, 'You've lost your mind.' I was doing drugs, I was really out of control. But I never got so far into it that I overdosed or anything.”
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“Once you open those doors they're open for ever. People who say they need (drugs) to be creative are full of s**t.
“I'm not some chick on the road getting high and f****d up every night. I wake up, drink coffee and get on the phone to talk about the creative direction of the next video.”