People who have nothing better to do than talk about my hair color have no lives.

The media is something that affects a lot of people, so you're constantly trying to strike a balance between respecting something and not caring about it.

A lot of people are just really confused by me; they don’t know what to think of me, so they try to compartmentalize me or diminish me. Maybe they just feel unsafe. But any time you have an overtly emotional or irrational, negative reaction to something, you’re fearing something that it’s bringing up in you.

If those civil rights groups are going into those orphanages and offering to look after those children, then they have every right to make a stink about it. But they're not. They're not offering a solution.

A lot of people saw Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland as persecuted and tragic and vulnerable, and I think a lot of gay men feel that way because of their particular predicament in society and not being accepted completely.

Make no mistake, Madonna is always in control of the image she wants you to see.

My point of view and philosophy continues to change and grow. As the years go by you go through this evolution.