We've made so many advances in other areas - civil rights, gay rights - but ageism is still an area that's taboo and not talked about and dealt with.

I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.

Nothing really matters; love is all we need.

Love´s nothing else than a war in which both are the winners.

I didn't set out to write certain kinds of songs - I just set out to write good songs.

Truth is never far behind.

Express yourself, don't repress yourself.