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Fantastic lady gaga on this our 25th anniversary week. we'll be joined thursday night by the president of the united states, barack obama. you said, lady gaga, that you don't touch cocaine anymore. was it hard to stop doing it? >> no, it wasn't. by the time that i had stopped doing it, it was ruining my life. so no, i kind of just threw it away, i guess. >> larry: british tabloids say that you recently -- i want to get this right -- you walked into a local pub in birmingham, you had a few drinks and picked up everybody's tab when you left. true? >> yes. what's wrong with buying a few friends a...

Of course, i always want to be better, but not a bad pressure. a good, wonderful pressure. >> larry: how do you come up with the little monsters idea? what does that mean? >> well, i wrote the album "the fame monster" which is the second album. and when i had finished, i realized that i had written each song about a particular fear that i had come across on my journey promoting the fame. and then when i went on tour, my fans were so -- they were salivating at the mouth and they couldn't -- they were rabid. they couldn't wait for me to sing my new songs, and they just behaved like monsters in t...

Because it made me sad that i saw that video and i thought it was so great and i was so excited that over in afghanistan they're fighting every day for us, and they're protecting us and doing so much, and they were just having a little downtime, and i had to think twice before i posted it because i didn't want anything bad to happen. >> larry: she has been compared to another groundbreaking female artist known for visuals, music, and stage shows like madonna, of course. what does lady gaga think about those comparisons? and that video is coming. ccccccc

They know how much i love them. and my music in so many ways, my friends since i was very young, they were all gay. and they were always my closest friends, my purest friendships. gay men never wanted anything from me. but my love and my friendship. it's very different than your relationships with straight men. so i suppose it's just very pure. and i celebrate their culture and their union and who they are through and through in my music and in my fashion and in my work every day. and i will forever. >> larry: we have a few segments left with her. we wish we had hours. more with lady gaga. mor...

And we were going to open for him at the o2, and we were working on making it happen. >> larry: wow. >> and i suppose i believe there was some talk about lots of the openers doing duets with michael on stage. but michael's death was devastating for me regardless of whether or not i was supposed to go on tour with him. he's such an inspiration and remarkable human being. i guess i suppose, larry, some of my fascination with death and the demise of the celebrity goes along with me watching these hugely iconic and amazing people that i have heralded and admired my whole life become destroyed. whe...