Madonna

“I always thought I should be treated like a star.”

“I laugh at myself. I don't take myself completely seriously. I think that's another quality that people have to hold on to... you have to laugh, especially at yourself.”

“I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.”

“Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.”

“I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.”

“No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.”

“Sometimes you have to be a bitch to get things done.”

“Everyone is a star and deserves the right to twinkle.”

“Fame is a form of misunderstanding.”

“I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”

“A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.”

“I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.”

“To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.”

“Power is a great aphrodisiac.”

“I've been popular and unpopular, successful and unsuccessful, loved and loathed and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore I feel free to take whatever risks I want.”

“I am a survivor. I am like a cockroach, you can't get rid of me.”

“Better to live one year as a tiger, than a hundred as a sheep.”

“I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon but I want to stay alive.”

“Music makes the people come together.”

“I am not a feminist, I am a humanist.”