It takes more strength to cry, admit defeat. I have truth on my side, you only have deceit.

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.

David Bowie really played with ideas, and iconography and imagery. He's brilliant man. And a gentleman, too.

I used to believe in the pretty pictures that were all around me, but now I know for sure that I was stupid.

Hey you! Don't be silly! Put a rubber on your willie!

When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that's how I really got into the music business. But I didn't like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there.

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.