Lady Gaga is Rolling Stone‘s current cover girl (June 8, 2011), with an extensive interview and a rather lovely cover shoot. She reveals some unexpected tidbits – her inspirations include Rocky IV and Duran Duran – as well as some possible interpretations of her “Judas” video.
The accompanying photos by Ryan McGinley might actually be my favorite pictures of Gaga yet.  She looks relatively normal, for one thing, but there’s also something of a maiden from a Renaissance painting here as well.
Check out these interview highlights:
On being bullied in school: “Being teased for being ugly, having a big nose, being annoying. Your laugh is funny, you’re weird, why do you always sing, why are you so into theater, why do you do your make-up like that?’ . . . I used to be called a slut, be called this, be called that, I didn’t even want to go to school sometimes.”
On the symbiotic relationship she has with her fans: “We have this umbilical cord that I don’t want to cut, ever. I don’t feel that they suck me dry. It would be so mean, wouldn’t it, to say, ‘For the next month, I’m going to cut myself off from my fans so I can be a person.’ What does that mean? They are part of my person, they are so much of my person. They’re at least 50 percent, if not more.”
On really being born that way: “When I am not onstage I feel dead. “Whether that is healthy or not to you, or healthy or not to anyone, or a doctor, is really of no concern to me. I don’t feel alive unless I’m performing, and that’s just the way I was born.”
Read more in the current issue of Rolling Stone, on newsstands now.  And click through for more pics!
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