I think that the history of rock could be recycled in a different way and brought back into focus without the luggage that comes along with it.

I'm not sure whether it is me changing my mind, or whether I lie a lot.

No more free steps to heaven.

I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human.

I really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals.

I think I quite desperately wanted to have that kind of special companionship [like marriage ] . . . a special relationship, yet I hid from it for many, many years and pretended to be cynical about it.

It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.