Lady Gaga covers Harper’s Bazaar magazine’s May 2011 issue. Here’s what the 25-year-old pop star had to share:

On plastic surgery: “I have never had plastic surgery, and there are many pop singers who have. I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification.”

On being an artist: “I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.”