I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

We're not Beatles to each other, you know. It's a joke to us. If we're going out the door of the hotel, we say, 'Right! Beatle John! Beatle George now! Come on, let's go!' We don't put on a false front or anything.

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.

If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.

I thought up the name Queen early on. It couldn't have been King; it doesn't have the same ring or aura as Queen.