I'm not saying I'm some high priestess. I do things, I'm sure, that are damaging, but it's certainly not on purpose.

When you're collaborating with somebody who's got a lot of stuff they haven't worked out yet, you're working out their vision as well.

Madonnas got one big choice. Take a couple of years off and become a human being.

There's this whole sense of judgment and who's right and who's wrong and who's moral and who's going to be punished.

I'm trying to appeal to the disenfranchised everybody, not just specifically gay.

On one side you have book burners, Congressional wives and Pat Robertson. On the other side, you have vulgar comedians, foul-mouthed rap groups and Dennis Hopper—all your choices should be so easy.

My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.