For those who don't have headphones right now, here's the transcript:
"I have had to make decisions like, why am I unhappy? OK, Stefani, Gaga, hybrid person: Why are you unhappy? Why is it that you wanted to quit music (a couple years ago)?
OK, well, I really don’t like selling these fragrances, perfumes. I don’t like wasting my time spending days just shaking people’s hands and smiling, taking selfies. It feels shallow to my existence. I have a lot more to offer than my image.
I don’t like being used to make people money. I feel sad when I am overworked and that I just become a moneymaking machine and that my passion and my creativity takes a backseat — that makes me unhappy.
So what did I do? I started to say no. I’m not doing that. I don’t want to do that. I'm not taking that picture. I’m not going to that event. I’m not standing by that because that’s not what I stand for, and slowly but surely I remembered who I am.
And then you go home and you look in the mirror and you’re like, "Yes. I can go to bed with you...every night." ’Cause that person? I know that person.
That person has balls. That person has integrity. That person has an opinion. That person just doesn’t say yes.
That person doesn’t get a text from somebody and say, “Oh my god, they wrote this and, um, they sent this emoji — should I write this back?"
"Should I say this back? Is it OK to say this? Are they going to like me if I say that? Should I say something different?”
This is the age we live in. We aren’t actually communicating with each other. We are unconsciously communicating lies.
