Lady Gaga, Applause Fuels 'ARTPOP' Fights Depression at SiriusXM Town Hall

Lady Gaga talks to Sirius XM Town Hall. Applause Fuels 'ARTPOP'

Lady Gaga sets trends. She cues culture. Lady Gaga wants to be number one. To be the first. She recently claimed that she will be first person to sing in space, if you forget that Russian Cosmonaut that sang David Bowie's Space Oddity, or the flautist who played from space with Jethro Tull. Lady Gaga will be the first. She needs the applause.

Lady Gaga isn't afraid to shoot into the stars. In an interviews she gave to a SiriusXM Townhall on Nov. 8 she talked about her upcoming Virgin Galactic flight, saying "Everyone that flies on Virgin Galactic is required to pay for their flight, and it's a trip to space, but they asked me and I don't have to pay for my flight, which is great, because it's mostly for rich people ... I did not come this far to be afraid to go to space!"

Lady Gaga said "I refuse to do what I don't want to do. I am the artist and culture doesn't cue me. I cue culture."

Since Lady Gaga and her manager, Troy Carter, split there is nothing holding her back from doing what she wants. Lady Gaga's fourth studio album ARTPOP is more than an album. It is an app, a social network, a way of life.

Lady Gaga is throwing an album release party tonight.  The "Applase" singer gave the album ARTPOP a present. A pet name PETGA. It is a free app that guides fans through their own remixes of the ARTPOP tracks. PETGA also helps Lady Gaga's Little Monsters connect on their own social network. Lady Gaga says "We've been working on it for two years - I was in a wheelchair for six months, so I had a lot of time." Gaga says it would have come out sooner but she "made the decision not to with Born This Way because I felt that the message [of that album] really needed to be paramount."

Native New Yorker Lady Gaga found inspiration in Chicago. Her boyfriend Taylor Kinney taped his Chicago Fire there. She worked with Chicago artist R. Kelly on "Do What U Want." Lady Gaga loves Chicago, she says "It just sort of became something I really became obsessed with - and they let me go out and have drinks without it being crazy." She also loves Chicago's deep dish pizza.

Lady Gaga also told the town hall that she's not actively pursuing acting. Lady Gaga will play roles in "Machete Kills" and the soon-to-be-release "Sin City 2," but she's a musician, not an actor, she said "I've had some offers for a couple different things - one in particular I really, really love - but I'm really a musician. I really want to do it when it's the right director and the right time."

Lady Gaga says depressions fuel her creativity, "It's so much easier for me to just admit to that it happens. I love performing live so much, so that really saves me."

The "Paparazzi" singer says the music industry has a tendency to pigeonhole. "I find producers that have been in the industry for a long time to be very oppressive and very unsupportive of my natural talents because I'm blonde, female, and I have tits and an ass and I'm sexual onstage, so I must not know anything about music. I just feel like the corporate music industry is so oppressive - I'm told what I have to make and how I have to make it to get played on the radio, to be appropriate. This is not how music used to be. It was you were the artist, and what you had to say was gold...I will not allow these corporations to run me; I will not allow the music business to tell me what I can and cannot be to be a pop star. I am the artist. I tell you what I am."

ARTPOP drops tomorrow, Nov. 11.