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Lady Gaga admits that she's "emotionally thin"

Lady Gaga views herself as "emotionally thin" and thinks it's a vital quality to have in order to be a successful artist in the music industry. 

In a brand new interview with Popdust.com, the 'Born This Way' superstar revealed that she feels the need to be constantly "public" and that her emotions must be accessible at all times:

"I learned that to be a great artist, you must be emotionally very thin. Your tears and your anger and your happiness must be just under the surface of your first layer of skin. Yes. But I like to say “emotionally thin” because it’s much more dramatic. Vulnerable to me implies only tears."

"Well, in my mind, to be a great artist you must be both private and public at all times. And yet I’m part of an industry that challenges the pop female head-on, guns a-blazing. I have to be emotionally thin but equally strong and impervious."

She added that being a female pop star with a love for theatrics almost prevents her from being "emotionally thin" as her constant physical reinvention often causes people to question who the real Lady Gaga actually is:

"The challenge is that what others view as artifice—my wigs, my makeup, my clothes, my love for show business and theater—to me, these are the paint in my palette. These things are not artifice. These things are my reality."

"But they create a boundary between me and the public that I have to fight through. People wonder, Is she for real? Is it all an act? But my question is, Since when did the act become a bad thing? Show business has always been about the act. Hasn’t it?"

Watch her recent performance of 'The Edge of Glory' on the Howard Stern Show here: