I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.

In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious.

I only wanted to be a songwriter. I never wanted to be a singer. And I never wanted to be famous.

My one area of vulnerability was I didn't know how to have a healthy relationship with a man.

I spent my 21st birthday chatting with my online friends because my husband had little interest in celebrating with me, and there was no other group of people I'd rather spend time with, even if they weren't there with me in person.

It's a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think of pain.

If you're fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939 and you're a Jew, you don't think so much about relationships. People didn't have a lot of divorces during the Holocaust, for instance.

People have got to form some kind of unified fronts where you know who your allies are, you know who your friends are, and really begin to work together to create different kinds of infrastructures to protect one another and to help one another thrive.