Lady Gaga has hinted at why her engagement to Taylor Kinney ended.

Lady Gaga and Taylor Kinney

Lady Gaga and Taylor Kinney

Although the 30-year-old singer did not mention her former fiancé by name, she spoke about how hard it is for women when their love is not met with "dignity".

Speaking on 'CBS Sunday Morning', she said: "I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

"You know, we're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you."

Gaga and 'Chicago Fire' actor Taylor, 35, were together for five years and engaged for one before they ended their romance in July.

Gaga also admitted she misses being anonymous and being able to chat to random people.

She explained: "I miss people. I miss people. I miss, you know, going anywhere and meeting a random person and saying, 'Hi,' and having a conversation about life. I love people.

"I'm very acutely aware that once I cross that property line, I'm not free anymore. As soon as I go out into the world, I belong, in a way, to everyone else. It's legal to follow me. It's legal to stalk me at the beach. And I can't call the police or ask them to leave. And I took a long, hard look at that property line, and I said, 'Well, if I can't be free out there, I can be free in here."

And the singer also revealed she worries that her fan base might find her constant musical transformations difficult to understand.

She said: "I think it is hard for them at times to, you know, change from album to album, because I go through quite a transformation. And that's just the way I am as an artist. You know, they have to kind of let go of the last era of music."