Lady Gaga: I've suffered through depression and anxiety my whole life

Today's cover story of Billboard Lady Gaga gets personal about saving troubled teens, "I've suffered through depression and anxiety my whole life."

Gaga on the teen suicides, especially Jamey Rodemeyer's, that happened around the time she released Born This Way: "When that album came out, Jamey heard pieces of it and was posting about it on the internet, but unfortunately, he was already in that very deep dark space. Jamey and other teens who take their lives young because they feel different -- I wanted to make [ their deaths] a lesson instead of a casualty of our negligence."

On the biggest problem these children face: "Depression and anxiety really link them. There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated. They read all of this extremely hateful language on the Internet. The internet is a toilet. It is. It used to be a fantastic resource -- but you have to sort through shit to find the good stuff."

On suffering herself: "I've suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life, I still suffer with it every single day. I just want these kids to know that that depth that they feel as human beings is normal. We were born that way. This modern thing, where everyone is feeling shallow and less connected? That's not human."