Lady Gaga has spoken for the first time about her arrival at last weekend's Grammy Awards inside an egg.

The singer was transported into the Los Angeles ceremony inside the egg, before hatching from the device on stage during a performance of new single 'Born This Way'.

In an interview with Billboard, Lady Gaga said the egg was intended to symbolise new life.

"I was thinking about birth. I was thinking about embryos,” she said. “Even my hair color was a washed out rose color that I had at the Grammys, it was meant to be a hair expression, an after birth."

She went on to say that the performance was “about birthing a new race, birthing a race within the race of already existing cultures of humanity -- that bears no judgement”.

'Born This Way' is the first single to be taken from Lady Gaga's forthcoming album of the same name.

Grammy Awards 2011