One must dare to show what he wants. You have to go and ask for things rather than wait for them to happen.

Tell me love isn't true, it's just something that we do.

Crucifixes are sexy because there's a naked man on them.

I feel that most gay men are so much more in touch with a certain kind of sensitivity that heterosexual men aren't allowed to be in touch with, their feminine side. To me they're whole human beings, more so than most of the straight men that I know.

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.

I think they were scared of me because I was different. I've always asked, 'Why? Why do I have to do that? Why do I have to look this way? Why do I have to dress this way? Why do I have to behave this way?'

I've created a very unconventional family. I have lovers who are three decades younger than me. This makes people very uncomfortable.