[Lady Gaga] isn’t unique in any way. She is exactly one part Madonna and one part Marilyn Manson. She looked at two people who received massive amounts of attention—Madonna for being hyper sexualized and scandalous, and Manson for being aggressively controversial—and instead of saying, “Let me come up with something new in that same family of publicity,” said, “I’ll just do both of those things, all the time.