Lady Gaga Dropped Out of NYU to Learn Real Art

Lady Gaga has been dominating the music charts like a pro and will soon co-headline a tour with Kanye West. How did she rise to celebrity status so damn quickly? She claims she picked up the skills by dropping out of college.

"I loved NYU, but I thought I could teach myself about art better than the school could. I really felt New York was my teacher and that I needed to bite the bullet and go it alone," she said in the Women in Music issue of Elle magazine. "I wasn't interested in going to frat parties. ... I was really interested in the music scene and waitressing and cleaning toilets, or whatever the f--- it was I was doing."

Cleaning toilets? You’ve lost us, but go on.

Apparently Lady Gaga (her name comes from the Queen song Radio Ga Ga) used "sex, pornography, art, fame, obsession, drugs and alcohol" as inspiration for her album The Fame.

"Why would anyone care to listen to me if I wasn't an expert in what I write about? And the album itself is the story of me and my friends and, again, our lives in New York — and you either want to know about it and be a part of it, or you don't," she said. "I am completely, 100 percent honest in what I do and who I am, and I've got nothing to hide."

The lady is nothing if not eccentric. You go on being your crazy self, Gaga.