Gaga, 26, who recently split with her "Vampire Diaries" star boyfriend Taylor Kinneyshe, said she was comfortable being alone at the age of 20 when she decided to seriously pursue a career in the music industry, reported Contactmusic.
"I have begun to cherish my loneliness. I have since I was around 20 years old... I was very depressed when I was 19 because I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school," she said.
The singer managed to pull herself out of depression and drug addiction after realising cocaine was taking her further away from her dreams of making it as a pop star.