Lady Gaga for Rolling Stone by Terry Richardson

Lady Gaga hits the cover of Rolling Stone this Friday accompanied with a shoot by Terry Richardson. Yes, this is going to be interesting.

“Lady Gaga bares her heart — and much more — on the cover of Rolling Stone‘s new issue, on sale at newsstands Wednesday, June 23rd. In the most extensive interview the pop star has ever given about the breakup that inspired her transformation from Germanotta to Gaga, her complex relationship with her beloved father and the music on her next album, Lady Gaga tells contributing editor Neil Strauss art is life and not being fierce isn’t an option: “When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl,” she says. “Then I say, ‘Bitch, you’re Lady Gaga, you get up and walk the walk today.’ “