Lady Gaga on traveling to outer space and her inner space

“Performing in space is such an honor.�

Who else but Lady Gaga could utter such a phrase and still be taken seriously?

“I want to challenge myself to come up with something that will not only bring everyone together but will also have a message of love that blasts into the beyond,� she says in the March issue of Harper’s Bazaar, referring to her planned one-song performance on a Virgin Galactic flight, which was announced back in November.

The 27-year-old singer will be auctioning off her plus-one seat on the space plane to raise money for her Born This Way Foundation, and she envisions a future in which she’s like Oprah Winfrey or Melinda Gates, making money so she can give to others.

Still, it hasn’t been all sky-high happiness and generosity for Lady Gaga: At the end of last year she went through a bad bout of depression, she told the mag.

“I felt very taken advantage of by people I trusted,� she said. “I asked my mother, “I work so hard. I never stop. I never say no. Why doesn’t this person love me, Mom? Why was this person willing to hurt me to help themselves? Why wasn’t I enough? Why is money more important than me? She reminded me to forgive others for not seeing God where I see it. I see God in my fans.�

Her mother, she said, helped her understand her own feelings, and she was able to pull from herself out of her depression come the new year.

“I really felt like I was dying -- my light completely out. I said to myself, ‘Whatever is left in there, even just one light molecule, you will find it and make it multiply....’ Depression doesn’t take away your talents — it just makes them harder to find. But I always find it. I learned that my sadness never destroyed what was great about me. You just have to go back to that greatness, find that one little light that’s left.

“I’m lucky I found one little glimmer stored away.�

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