I am a survivor. I am like a cockroach, you just can't get rid of me.

I know where beauty lives, I've seen it once, I know the warmth she gives.

If you're going to be an artist, real life is your inspiration.

I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.

It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity.

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.

My priority is my family, absolutely, 100 percent.