Come on, there's a bit of you that wants to know what Lady Gaga's said isn't there? Even if it's just a tiny, almost indistinguishable part of you that isn't totally sick of the narcissistic pop strumpet, that's still a part. So here we go, are you ready? It's exciting. Really it is.

You'll be glad you did, because the most recent stop in her I'm-not-as-much-of-a-tired-old-gimmick-as-I-seem interview tour was with Stephen Fry, for the Financial Times. How wacky is that? Very wacky indeed. After all, where else would an interview start with:

'It takes quite a bit to excite the staff of The Lanesborough Hotel'

Good old Stephen Fry. More on him later. Anyway, during the interview Gaga explains why cash is useless to her (because she's a creative force unlike the world has ever seen) and again tries to reassure us that she isn't as self-obsessed as everyone thinks. Incidentally, she is.

'It's honestly true that money means nothing to me. The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga licence plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

 

'Other than that I put everything in the show, and I actually went bankrupt after the first extension of The Monster Ball. And it was funny because I didn't know! And I remember I called everybody and said, "Why is every­one saying I have no money? This is ridiculous, I have five number one singles' and they said, 'Well, you're $3m in debt'.'

 

'You all have an opinion about pop singers or public figures, that ... we only care about ourselves, and how could it be possible that a woman like me who loves theatre and loves fantasy and loves magic, how could it be possible that I could really mean what I'm saying? I would say that's quite anti-feminism, isn't it, to say that a woman based on the way that she wears her hair and her shoes would not be sincere.'

 

'I study everything that I do to become better all the time at my craft. The beauty for me about being an artist is that the dream will never die, because I’m not obsessed with material things and don’t care about the money and don’t care about the attention of the public, but only the love of my fans, so for me it’s about how much more devoted, how much better an artist can I become.'

Much better. Miles better.