"It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.“

-David Bowie

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"I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go."

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"But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people."

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"I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me."

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"I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time."

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"The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever."

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"The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time."

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