What's shocking is cruelty and torture, and that's become our entertainment. Kids can play violent video games, but God forbid they look at a naked woman. That's pornography, that's perverse. No!

If you watch Michael Jackson [1992] concerts from Budapest and compare it to a Madonna concert of today, you'll see such uplifting beauty and a message that you won't see in any other artist of our time.

With mania, is it dangerous to ride that euphoric feeling. You feel very animated and creative; I would fill journals with drawings. It feels good and you want it to last, but it can lead to being delusional. The delusions can be as real as you thinking you can fly.

I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation.

As an artist you have a choice. You can add more confusion and darkness to the world or you can shine a light, make a beauty.

I think we're in a post-pornographic time and nothing seems shocking, but everything remains carnal no matter what you do.

The cruelty, war and violence, this is evil, wrong and dark and that's what we should hide from the children, not a human body!