Lady Gaga, 'Paparazzi' (Sessions)

AOL: You talk very eloquently about your passion for people like David Bowie and Freddie Mercury. If you could sit down with the late Freddie Mercury, what would you ask him?

LG: I would ask him where he got his nerve.

AOL: Where do you get your nerve?

LG: I'm not quite sure, but I think it might be my mother? My mother taught me that I was capable of anything. And I believed her with a tremendous heart filled with delusion.

AOL: Beyonce talks a lot about separating herself. She calls her stage persona Sasha Fierce. There's Beyonce when she's not on stage, and there's Sasha Fierce when she is on stage. What's the difference between Lady GaGa and Stefani Germanotta?

LG: Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

AOL: So if you're just sitting in your apartment in New York, how are you different than what we're seeing right now?

LG: I'm not all different. What you're really asking me is if I'm full of s---.