Madonna — "I'm a work in progress. I'm always learning. I'm always growing."

"I don't give a f*** if you think it's selfish of me to say no for a photo or for your time or for a hug. That's not normal. That's weird. It's weird how people think you know a person just because you…"

"We lie right next to each other with our BlackBerrys under our pillows. It's not unromantic, it's practical."

"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 find whenever someone writes anything about me, my age is right after my name... It's almost like they're saying, 'Here she is, but remember she's this age, so she's not that relevant anymore.' Or '…"

"I used to draw people naked all the time in my art class and my nun teachers used to tell me I had to put clothes on them. So I just drew lines around their bodies. See-through clothes."