Lady Gaga Is Totally Revealed In Public.

The May issue of Esquire, one of Lady Gaga's old friends, DJ Brendan Sullivan, gives the world an inside look at how the pop star achieved her meteoric rise to fame. According to Sullivan, Gaga didn't ask anyone to like her. She told them to. And he has plenty more to say.

Sullivan reveals that Lady Gaga was a struggling artist who worked as a go-go dancer in New York, loved Bruce Springsteen, designed her own costumes, and had a plan for world domination even before she became a tabloid favorite.

Gaga is a student of fame, and the fame she studies most is her own -- being famous seems to both amuse and fascinate her. 'I was always the star in my own life. [But] when I met him, he became the star,' Gaga once wrote to me of a hard-to-impress guy she used to date. 'I wrote the songs to impress him, but the songs will ultimately be the thing that pulls me away.'"