Lady Gaga's 10th cover and image from V Magazine with the AHS cast. Lady Gaga is the guest-editor of sixteen versions of V Magazine's new issue, and for version #10, she collaborated with the cast of American Horror Story: Hotel on an improvised photoshoot with Chadwick Tyler. "I’ve been writing a lot for the past year. The show has really affected my voice, I have to say." - Lady Gaga on her new album and AHS. For the cover interview, Gaga sat down with none other than James Franco to speak about the show, the past and the new album. "I'm using my listening from acting in my music more, which is crucial because it's music. Who knew I could listen even more? It's amazing to even talk about. There's a tremendous freedom and a recklessness, but there's also a sophistication in the show. There's a lot of liberation, but it's a very chic liberation. Here's what I will say: when I wasn't working on the show I was truly miserable because I had no safe house to get out any of my vices. Now I have a safe house for my vices so when I'm making music I just have a lot more clarity. I have a little less of an instinct to be reckless with my music now because I'm reckless in other places." - Lady Gaga "So now I'm thinking more about what it is I want to say and what I want to leave on Earth. It's less an expression of all my pain. There will be some of my pain on the record for sure, but it will be more than that. My last album was riddled with a ton of pain. That whole record. It's almost like you couldn't even get to what it is. Now, the show gives me an outlet to put things somewhere, so when I get to the piano I'm in a deeper place already. I have something completely other to explore." - Lady Gaga