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"I've gone from having a huge fan base to losing a huge fan base to having a kind of fluctuating fan base. I've always had a core of fans who've stuck by me but, depending on the kind of music I do, I end up appealing to certain groups of people and alienating others."
"Hollywood is about playing the game, and I can't think of any successful actresses who didn't play the game. There's a lot more renegades in the music business, from Patti Smith to Janis Joplin."
"To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return."
"I felt very awkward and out of place in school. Not popular, not attractive, not special in any way and I was longing for love and approval from someone."
"People want to hear the dirt. But this is not really anything I want to talk about."
"Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family."
"People don't know what Kabbalah is, and so they jump to conclusions. For me, studying Kabbalah is studying - is just - is asking questions. And I encourage all of my children to be that way, and I think people don't understand that. And so they make assumptions and they judge."
"I wanted to know why people follow rules blindly, or why girls had to act a certain way and boys didn't. Why could boys ask girls out and girls not ask guys out? Why did girls have to shave their legs and guys didn't? Why did society, like, set everything up the way they did? My whole adolescence was full of unanswered whys. Because they never got answered, I just kept lighting fires everywhere - metaphorically speaking."
"I'm sure other people have a very strange view of my lifestyle."
"Marriage? I don't know what I really think about marriage. I'm a bit confused on that issue."
"I became very obsessed with death, and the idea that you never know when death will arrive, so one has to do as much as possible all the time to get the most out of life. That would be a motivating force."
"I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices."
"People who have nothing better to do than talk about my hair color have no lives."
"As much as I think I've inspired people in the world, I'd like to be more involved bringing about world peace."
"To me, the most important thing - aside from meeting people's physical needs, whether that's education, health care, clothing, food, a roof over their heads - is changing the mind-set and educating people. And most of all, most important, is empowering people and making them self-sustaining."
"I want people to be moved, to feel called to action. That's what I want to do."
"I hate being called a pop star. I hate that."
"Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons."
"If I was a girl again, I would like to be like my fans, I would like to be like Madonna."
"My work gives me a sense of purpose that I never really had before - it gives me a lot of joy, and it would be wonderful to invite other people to get involved."