Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive. Desperate womanhood. Madonna is closer to organized prostitution than anything else.

This position I've held ... it pays may way and it corrodes my soul.

Bring me the head of Elton John . . . which is one instance in which meat would not be murder, if it were served on a plate.

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.

I hated the royal wedding.

You are a work of art.

I never imagined I'd be a solo artist. And now I couldn't imagine being part of a group.