Lady Gaga has been named Billboard 's Woman of the Year, which is slightly ironic, considering she almost gave up her career as a pop star at the tail end of 2014.<br />When you're going so fast you don't feel safe anymore, you feel like you're being slapped around and you can't think straight.<br />Famous since her debut single "Just Dance" was released in 2008, Gaga says she needed to take a break to figure out what kind of artist she wanted to be.<br />People think, 'You can just sit down at a piano whenever you want and write,' but I couldn't write for two f-king years.<br />To find her center, Gaga recorded a jazz album and toured with Tony Bennett , who became a friend and mentor.
