Madonna is closer to organised prostitution than anything else.

Well, I think the way you feel as a teenager stays with you, forever. I really believe that. And we try to change and we hope that we change, but we don't really in big ways, in serious ways. I think the personality is formed at that time, for the good and for the bad. ... We all want to grow up and move on and appear to be different to people. And we want people to see us in a different way. But, I don't know, I think the personality is very, very strongly cemented, and we just bear whatever shortcomings we have and learn to live with it.

For the first time in my life the eternal 'I' becomes 'we', as, finally, I can get on with someone.

I am human and I need to be loved, just like everybody else does.

I have seen one or two psychiatrists. They just sit and nod and doodle.

You either approve of violence or you don't, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry.

You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you're doing, and I can manage that.