"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."

"I'm a rebel. I'm a rule-breaker. I'm a risk-taker. I'm a trailblazer. I'm a pioneer."

"I see a huge paradox in me – the intense need to be loved and the search for approval juxtaposed with the need to nurture other people, to be the mother I never had."

"I'm a truth-teller. I'm a storyteller. I'm a messenger."

"I always say I'm a feminist, but I don't go out and burn my bras."