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"I wanted to be a nun. I saw nuns as superstars. When I was growing up I went to a Catholic school, and the nuns, to me, were these superhuman, beautiful, fantastic people."
"If you want something bad enough the whole world conspires to help you get it."
"There's one thing you can't download and that's a live performance. And I know how to put on a show, and enjoy performing, and I'll always have that."
"Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is."
"Why did I want to break all the rules? Because the rules didn’t make sense, that’s why"
"I am not reinventing myself. I am going through the layers and revealing myself. I am on a journey, an adventure that's constantly changing shape."
"It's none of your business what people say about you."
"I hope I will always have the ability to create art and live in a world where I can speak freely, and I can inspire people. I don't know what form that will take."
"Never forget to dream."
"Sex is the most fun you can have without smiling."
"I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art."
"Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another."
"We live in a world where people like to pit women against each other. And this is why I love the idea of embracing other females who are doing what I'm doing. It's important for us to support each other."
"Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots cause it's okay to be a boy. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading cause you think being a girl is degrading"
"Popularity comes and goes. You need to know who you are, what you stand for, and why you're here."
"Express yourself, don't repress yourself."
"I feel that most gay men are so much more in touch with a certain kind of sensitivity that heterosexual men aren't allowed to be in touch with, their feminine side. To me they're whole human beings, more so than most of the straight men that I know."
"A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want."
"I just like the idea of pills. I like to collect them but not actually take them. When I fell off my horse, I got tons of stuff: Demerol and Vicodin and Xanax and Valium and Oxycontin, which is supposed to be like heroin. And I'm quite scared to take them. I'm a control freak."
"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."