Popular Quotes Through Time

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.

Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.

I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon but I want to STAY ALIVE.

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'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.

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.

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

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.

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.

Express yourself, don't repress yourself.

Art keeps me alive. I've obviously been devastated or heartbroken all my life, since my mother's death.

I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

Sick and perverted always appeals to me.

We learn our lessons; we get hurt; we want revenge. Then we realize that actually, happiness and forgiving people is the best revenge.

I always wished that I could find someone as beautiful as you, but in the process I forgot that I was special too.

There's no such thing as the perfect soulmate. Your soulmate is the person that pushes all your buttons and makes you face your shit.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage.

The most controversial thing I've ever done is to be myself.