Lady Gaga greatly values her creativity, to the point where she once put off having kids because she worried doing so would take her creative ability away.

Lady Gaga prides herself on being a creative artist. Because of this, one of the “Telephone” singer’s biggest concerns was losing her creativity. But her concerns played a role in her not wanting to have kids.

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Oprah. “It’s a hallway with wooden doors. The first door’s open, that’s that album, you walk down. There’s another door, that’s the next album. And then there’s one more door, and it’s coming up. And I’m banging on the walls, I’m looking for hammers. I’m trying to figure where the machine guns are. I just want to get to that freakin’ door.”

Lady Gaga asserted that this process was about more than just songwriting.

Lady Gaga once shared she didn’t want to have kids because of her creativity

“I will say I am very excited to have kids,” she once said in an interview with InStyle. “I look forward to being a mom. Isn’t it incredible what we can do? We can hold a human inside and grow it.

Then it comes out, and it’s our job to keep it alive. It’s so funny — everyone works out of my house every day. When they come in, I always say, ‘Welcome to the Womb!’”

“Although my womb is not yet beckoning for a child. I’m — I’m very far away from that day. I’m also terrified it will ruin my creativity,” she once said in an interview with Larry King.

“I’m looking for love just like everyone else, Larry. But right now, love is in the form of my fans. Love comes in many different forms. Right now, I’m passionately only serving them,” she added.

Children wasn’t the only way Gaga feared she could lose her creativity. She was also superstitious when it came to sleeping with a significant other. In a 2010 interview with Vanity Fair (via MTV News), Gaga once explained her reasoning.

This was partially why the Golden Globe winner didn’t live a promiscuous lifestyle.