David Marchese

More recently, you've had any other sort of similar artistic epiphanies or where your own perspective on what you're capable of opened up?

Yeah, they were a canvas.

Yeah, they were a canvas.

After the break, Lady Gaga and I sit down in person and talk about the kind of mom she'd like to be.

After the break, Lady Gaga and I sit down in person and talk about the kind of mom she'd like to be.

Do you have much experience with microphones?

Do you have much experience with microphones?

But thank you for doing this in person.

But thank you for doing this in person.

But we talked earlier about... the idea of how there was a point in your career when you were particularly interested in sort of playing with artifice and sort of trying on different personas. And I was wondering if There was any way in which that was ever psychologically destabilizing or hard to manage? You're nodding, yeah.

But we talked earlier about... the idea of how there was a point in your career when you were particularly interested in sort of playing with artifice and sort of trying on different personas. And I was wondering if There was any way in which that was ever psychologically destabilizing or hard to manage? You're nodding, yeah.

It worked, though.

It worked, though.

Let me ask you this though. Do you have any skepticism internally about whether the person you are now is just another persona that you're trying on?

Let me ask you this though. Do you have any skepticism internally about whether the person you are now is just another persona that you're trying on?

No.

No.

Because like the I am authentic now is a thing that people do.

Because like the I am authentic now is a thing that people do.

And you brought up a period five or so years ago when it seems like your mental health was not in a great place. Are you able to tell me more about what was going on with you then?