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I loved Prince then, I love him now and will love him eternally. He's with our son now. -- Madonna Ciccone
Isn't it amazing that there are laws of the universe that you can actually find out about, live your life according to and change the world for the better? -- Madonna Ciccone
Dress like Britney Spears and think like me, and everything will be fine. -- Madonna Ciccone
I miss New York. I still love how people talk to you on the street - just assault you and tell you what they think of your jacket. -- Madonna Ciccone
I have a funny relationship with religion. I'm a big believer in ritualistic behavior as long as it doesn't hurt anybody. But I'm not a big fan of rules. And yet, we cannot live in a world without order. -- Madonna Ciccone
I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity. -- Madonna Ciccone
To me, the most important thing - aside from meeting people's physical needs, whether that's education, health care, clothing, food, a roof over their heads - is changing the mind-set and educating people. And most of all, most important, is empowering people and making them self-sustaining. -- Madonna Ciccone
Children always think they did something wrong when their parents disappear. -- Madonna Ciccone
And I'll remember the love that you gave me, now that I am standing on my own, I'll remember the way that you changed me, I'll remember. -- Madonna Ciccone
Making records is not how it used to be! #stillwerking -- Madonna Ciccone
I'm not crazy about how sort of homogenized pop music become. It used to be much more diverse. Maybe it's just what's played on the radio sounds very much the same. -- Madonna Ciccone
Losing my virginity was a career move. -- Madonna Ciccone
I loved nuns when I was growing up. I thought they were beautiful. For several years I wanted to be a nun. I saw them as really pure, disciplined, above average people. They had these serene faces. Nuns are sexy. -- Madonna Ciccone
I didn't have many friends; I might not have had any friends. But it all turned out good in the end, because when you aren't popular and you don't have a social life, it gives you more time to focus on your future. -- Madonna Ciccone
I hope I will always have the ability to create art and live in a world where I can speak freely, and I can inspire people. I don't know what form that will take. -- Madonna Ciccone
Gay men are perfect men for girls who are tough. They're not threatened by strong women, and they're usually very in touch with their feelings and pay attention to details. I've always had an affinity with gay men. -- Madonna Ciccone
Rejection is the greatest aphrodisiac. -- Madonna Ciccone
You don't want to be the smartest person in the room; you want to be the dumbest in the room. You want to be surrounded by other thinking people who are going to say something that makes you think, "Oh, my God, that's an amazing idea. Why didn't I think of that." -- Madonna Ciccone
I know the aspect of my personality, being the vixen, the heartbreaker and the incredibly provocative girl is a very marketable image, but it's not insincere. You just can't take it seriously. -- Madonna Ciccone
I don't doubt love for a second. I'm living for love. Listen to my songs! -- Madonna Ciccone
Sure, having my pictures taken in the nude and doing things that I did got me in the door but it didn't keep me in the room. To have lasted as long as I've lasted, obviously, I have to have something more going for me. -- Madonna Ciccone
Why did I want to break all the rules? Because the rules didn't make sense, that's why -- Madonna Ciccone
I don't care anymore if people dress like me, now I want them to think like me. -- Madonna Ciccone
I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do. -- Madonna Ciccone
I've read a couple of reviews that say I'm getting harder in my old age but I don't think that's true at all. I think that you can't help but become a little cynical about life and love but I'm still a romantic, I'm still an idealist. -- Madonna Ciccone
The fact of the matter is that you can use your beauty and use your charm and be flirtatious, and you can get people interested in your beauty. But you cannot maintain that. In the end, talent is the only thing. My work is the only thing that's going to change any minds. -- Madonna Ciccone
Cosmic systems intertwine, astral bodies drip like wine, all of nature ebbs and flows. Comets shoot across the sky, can't explain the reasons why, this is how creation goes. -- Madonna Ciccone
I shouldn't have stayed so long away. Every time I come here, I get so supercharged with energy. I truly believe that Israel is the energy centre of the world. And I also believe that if we can all live together in harmony in this place, then we can live in peace all over the world. -- Madonna Ciccone
Thanks for all the birthday love! I feel like the luckiest girl in the world today! -- Madonna Ciccone
If we took a holiday, took some time to celebrate, just one day out of life, it would be, it would be so nice. -- Madonna Ciccone
I feel that most gay men are so much more in touch with a certain kind of sensitivity that heterosexual men aren't allowed to be in touch with, their feminine side. To me they're whole human beings, more so than most of the straight men that I know. -- Madonna Ciccone
My life is not a game that I play to entertain you. -- Madonna Ciccone
Ultimately it boils down to the same thing all relationships boil down to: eating humble pie. I sometimes eat quite a lot. But, however bitter it might taste, it's the best pie. It's on the menu constantly for both parties. -- Madonna Ciccone
On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on. -- Madonna Ciccone
Having children made me go down a road of serious introspection and self-examination. I think it's informed and hopefully enhanced my creativity. -- Madonna Ciccone
There isn't a performer on earth that isn't an exhibitionist. There isn't any point in being in this business if you're not an exhibitionist. And, by the way, you can be an exhibitionist and be very shy as well. -- Madonna Ciccone
The only way we know we love ourselves and the people in our life is by the agreements we are willing to make and keep -- Madonna Ciccone
Say goodbye to yesterday ... those are the words I'll never say. -- Madonna Ciccone
Motherhood was the beginning of my own journey asking the question, 'Why am I here?' I had to stop and think: What am I doing to teach my daughter? What do I believe in? -- Madonna Ciccone
Nothing lasts forever. Should I? -- Madonna Ciccone
Jean-Baptiste Mondino: "She's John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the same time". -- Madonna Ciccone
If we can elect an African American as president, we can support gay marriage! Defeat prop 8! We will not give up! -- Madonna Ciccone
I panic every time I put out a record. I think every artist does. -- Madonna Ciccone
The ultimate moment where I most felt like a rebel was in St. Petersburg, Russia [in 2012 during the MDNA Tour] when I was told they were going to arrest anyone who was openly or obviously gay and they came to my shows and I spoke out against the government. -- Madonna Ciccone
I must confess that I am usually drawn to sadness, and loneliness has never been a stranger to me. But love tried to welcome me, but my soul drew back, guilty of lust and sin. -- Madonna Ciccone
I hope my child will be a good Catholic like me. -- Madonna Ciccone
I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument. -- Madonna Ciccone
It amazes me when I talk to people in their early 20s and they've never read the classics, things we read as children. When you don't have knowledge and understanding, then fear rises in you. -- Madonna Ciccone
Looking at my life, it's very clear to me, I lived so selfishly. -- Madonna Ciccone
I wouldn't say I wanna conquer the world anymore. But I want to be a part of making the world a better place. I want to inspire people and I wanna be part of the solution. -- Madonna Ciccone
I know there's more to life than making lots of money and being successful and even getting married and having a family. -- Madonna Ciccone
I think you can be defiant and rebellious and still be strong and positive. -- Madonna Ciccone
Santa cAme early this year! good things come to those who wait! #rebelheart -- Madonna Ciccone
No one knows you better than you know yourself. Do the thing you want. Don't wait for someone else -- Madonna Ciccone
We've made so many advances in other areas - civil rights, gay rights - but ageism is still an area that's taboo and not talked about and dealt with. -- Madonna Ciccone
I love being photographed, or I should say I love the art of photography. It's about people taking photographs of you, stealing them, and then presuming or assuming or captioning. Words can never be taken back, photographs can never be taken back, nothing can ever be taken back. -- Madonna Ciccone
I can't stand when I walk into a room and everyone's not talking to each other and just on their phones. -- Madonna Ciccone
People like it when others are gossiping. When you hear a story about someone's demise or some big faux-pas they made, everyone wants to tune into it, because it's nice to know that someone else made a mistake. It makes you feel elevated for a moment. -- Madonna Ciccone
I was named after my mother. And I guess when I started making records, Madonna Ciccone seemed too long and complicated, and I just got stuck with Madonna. -- Madonna Ciccone
The beast is the modern world that we live in! The material world. The physical world. The world of illusion that we think is real. We live for it; we're enslaved by it. And it will ultimately be our undoing. -- Madonna Ciccone
I've been practicing yoga very seriously for a little over a year and I believe that helped my voice and affected my singing. -- Madonna Ciccone
My son youngest son David's favorite song - he plays guitar - and he likes "Devil Pray." That's his favorite. -- Madonna Ciccone
Sometimes you want to go for a walk and you don't want to be watched. You just want to be anonymous and blend in. Especially when I travel, I feel that way, because I can't really go out and see a city the way other people can and I miss out on a lot. -- Madonna Ciccone
If I can't be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don't really see the point of being on this planet. -- Madonna Ciccone
I didn't really give a sh** what's going on in the rest of the world. I just didn't. I just wanted to focus on me, me, me, my career, my life, just me - blinders. -- Madonna Ciccone
I think the silence would be good with me, and not interacting with people would be okay. But not being able to move outside of the space would be hard. Not being able to walk around - the stillness of my body, physically - that would be the challenge. -- Madonna Ciccone
To me, the whole process of being a brush stroke in someone else's painting is a little difficult -- Madonna Ciccone
I became very obsessed with death, and the idea that you never know when death will arrive, so one has to do as much as possible all the time to get the most out of life. That would be a motivating force. -- Madonna Ciccone
In the midnight hour, I can feel your power. -- Madonna Ciccone
Effeminate men intrigue me more than anything in the world. I see them as my alter egos. I feel very drawn to them. I think like a guy, but I'm feminine. So I relate to feminine men. -- Madonna Ciccone
I don't think anyone strives to be anything negative. I just think that it's our nature to only focus on a few things in life and forget about a lot of other stuff. -- Madonna Ciccone
You took a pretty picture and you smashed it into bits, sank me into blackness and you sealed it with a kiss. -- Madonna Ciccone
I could bring you so much pleasure, erotic, erotic, put your hands all over my body. -- Madonna Ciccone
The physical body is assembled just like a chair or a building or a flower, but the revolutions we start, the people we affect and inspire, that is eternal. So, in that respect, we do achieve immortality, and that makes me less fearful. -- Madonna Ciccone
People think that being famous is just about having your picture taken all the time and being rich rich rich, and you know what? ... They're absolutely right. -- Madonna Ciccone
At a time when political correctness is valued over honesty I would also like to say, 'Right on! -- Madonna Ciccone
My new Boyfriend! Mr. Marmoset Hard and Silent! #peopledontknowthings -- Madonna Ciccone
People want to hear the dirt. But this is not really anything I want to talk about. -- Madonna Ciccone
I used to believe in the pretty pictures that were all around me, but now I know for sure that I was stupid. -- Madonna Ciccone
Being poor in Africa is something people in America can't relate to. Part of the challenge is bringing that reality to people and moving them. You have to arouse compassion. -- Madonna Ciccone
Do I have to change my name, will it get me far? Should I lose some weight, am I gonna be a star? -- Madonna Ciccone
I felt very awkward and out of place in school. Not popular, not attractive, not special in any way and I was longing for love and approval from someone. -- Madonna Ciccone
Celebrate me for who I am, dislike me for what I ain't ( ... ) put me up on a pedestal or drag me down in the dirt ( ... ) this is who I am, you can like ir or not, you can love me or leave me cuz I'm never gonna stop -- Madonna Ciccone
Nowadays New-York is not the exciting place it used to be. It still has great energy; I still put my finger in the socket. But it doesn't feel alive, cracking with that synergy between the art world and music world and fashion world that was happening in the 80s. A lot of people died. -- Madonna Ciccone
Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family. -- Madonna Ciccone
I have my work and my faith ... If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I don't care. -- Madonna Ciccone
The thing I love most about being famous is people listening to me when I have something important to say. -- Madonna Ciccone
You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star. -- Madonna Ciccone
The idea of service to humanity, putting yourself in situations where people have much less than you do, puts life in perspective. -- Madonna Ciccone
My point of view and philosophy continues to change and grow. As the years go by you go through this evolution. -- Madonna Ciccone
Music ... makes the people ... come together ... -- Madonna Ciccone
Sometimes I was in a mood to write a song as if I was writing in my journal and reveal certain parts of me that I was ready to reveal. -- Madonna Ciccone
If you want something bad enough the whole world conspires to help you get it. -- Madonna Ciccone
I just like the idea of pills. I like to collect them but not actually take them. When I fell off my horse, I got tons of stuff: Demerol and Vicodin and Xanax and Valium and Oxycontin, which is supposed to be like heroin. And I'm quite scared to take them. I'm a control freak. -- Madonna Ciccone
I was never satisfied with casual encounters, I can't hide my need for two hearts that bleed with burning love. -- Madonna Ciccone
When you're 25, it's a little bit easier to be daring, especially if you are a pop star, because eccentric behavior is expected from you. -- Madonna Ciccone
Fame can be very disruptive. It can be like a drug. It gives you the feeling that you're happy, it gives you the feeling of self-importance, it gives you the feeling of fullfilment; but it can distract you from what is really important. -- Madonna Ciccone
Tell me love isn't true, it's just something that we do. -- Madonna Ciccone
I think there are just as many assholes meeting the old-fashioned way as there are meeting in the new hookup culture. -- Madonna Ciccone
If you have children, you know you're responsible for somebody. You realize you are being imitated; your belief systems and priorities have a direct influence on these children, who are like flowers in a garden. -- Madonna Ciccone
I don't know what our government does except put us into debt and blow up other countries. -- Madonna Ciccone
Nos are just as valuable as yeses in the game of life. In fact, they're essential. -- Madonna Ciccone
I've always been interested in electronica, techno, trip-hop, that kind of music. The thing that bothered me about a lot of that music, though, was it seemed devoid of emotion. There wasn't a lot that felt personal. -- Madonna Ciccone
I love horses. I think I may have been one of Henry VIII's knights in another life, riding through a great forest. -- Madonna Ciccone
My daughter has a problem picking things up in her room. So if you leave your clothes on the floor, we put them in a trash bag. She has to earn them back by being tidy. I'm a disciplinarian. Guy's the spoiler. -- Madonna Ciccone
If you're not comfortable with a strong woman you're not comfortable with your own feminine instincts. You're not comfortable, period. You're going to be threatened by everything that's not exactly like you are ... and that is the measure any man. -- Madonna Ciccone
Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons. -- Madonna Ciccone
Being blond is definitely a different state of mind. I can't really put my finger on it, but the artifice of being blond has some incredible sort of sexual connotation. -- Madonna Ciccone
When my world seems to crumble all around, and foolish people try to bring me down, I just think of your smile face, and I'm flying. -- Madonna Ciccone
We live in a world where people like to pit women against each other. And this is why I love the idea of embracing other females who are doing what I'm doing. It's important for us to support each other. -- Madonna Ciccone
Being famous has changed a lot, because now there's so many outlets, between magazines, TV shows, and the Internet, for people to stalk and follow you. We created the monster. -- Madonna Ciccone
Britney Spears became my talisman. I became obsessed with wearing Britney T-shirts. I felt it would bring me luck. And it did. -- Madonna Ciccone
Set your goals high and go far. Don't put off tomorrow what you can do today. -- Madonna Ciccone
In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room. -- Madonna Ciccone
I believe sometimes we aren't always in charge of everything that we do creatively. We submit to things as we're going on our own journey. -- Madonna Ciccone
I always acted like a star long before I was one -- Madonna Ciccone
I would like to see the Pope wearing my T-shirt. -- Madonna Ciccone
There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all. -- Madonna Ciccone
I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that. -- Madonna Ciccone
I have had many challenges in my life, including some very big ones when I was young and I've learned a lot of valuable lessons along the way. I have seen life from just about every angle you can see it from. -- Madonna Ciccone
Brushing my Grilzz Before I Booty Pop. A Woman's work is never Done! -- Madonna Ciccone
'Jesus' message was to love your neighbour as yourself, and there are people in need. I hope that people got that message. -- Madonna Ciccone
I learned a lot about humility and patience, keeping my mouth shut. -- Madonna Ciccone
Just because I'm presented life in a certain way doesn't mean I do all these things. It's just something I choose to express. -- Madonna Ciccone
I went to the University of Michigan for one year, and fortunately they had a foreign-film cinema, and I discovered it, and I thought I died and went to heaven. -- Madonna Ciccone
I can't even think of the words of what I'm feeling. This man [Prince] was my everything, we had a family. I am beyond deeply saddened and devastated. -- Madonna Ciccone
We're very privileged as Americans - it's easy to forget about the rest of the world and to think that your problems are the most important problems. Even poor people in America live better than poor people most everywhere else. -- Madonna Ciccone
When I left Michigan and I came to New York, that was my goal, to be a professional dancer. And I sort of fell into singing by accident in a way. -- Madonna Ciccone
You have to be patient. I'm not! -- Madonna Ciccone
I want to keep growing and living life to the fullest for as long as I'm on this planet. -- Madonna Ciccone
Start saving your pennies now. People spend $300 on crazy things all the time, things like handbags. So work all year, scrape the money together, and come to my show. I'm worth it. -- Madonna Ciccone
I don't think evil is sexy! I don't think being cruel and mean and hurting other people is sexy! ... Although I have been quite attracted to some very bad boys! -- Madonna Ciccone
Hand fits giving, so do it, that's what the Gospel said to me. Life fits living, so let your judgments go. -- Madonna Ciccone
Like a virgin, touched for the very first time. -- Madonna Ciccone
You don't have to have a language in common with someone for a sexual rapport. But it helps if the language you don't understand is Italian. -- Madonna Ciccone
I think that its an artist's responsibility to have a point of view. Society takes its cue from popular art. People need something to look to, something to provoke them into questioning whether they completely hate something or completely love something. -- Madonna Ciccone
My heart goes out to the families of innocent children who were killed today in Pakistan!! I do not accept a world where kids are killed for wanting an education! This violence and ignorance has to stop!!!! It starts with all of us treating all human beings with dignity and respect!! -- Madonna Ciccone
David Bowie really played with ideas, and iconography and imagery. He's brilliant man. And a gentleman, too. -- Madonna Ciccone
I'm constantly exploring spirituality, sexuality, different aspects of love, whether it's romantic love or the love you have for your children. And love can be as devastating and destructive as it can be rejuvenating and life-giving. I guess I try to capture all of that. -- Madonna Ciccone
I think all of us make the mistake of thinking we're going to change people when we get together. But we're not. People are who they are. And people change in their own time. -- Madonna Ciccone
I love being a mother. My children fill me up in many ways, and inspire me in many ways, but I need a partner in my life, and I think most people feel that way. -- Madonna Ciccone
When I discovered that I could write music, it felt like the most natural way for me to connect with people and tell my stories. I've always thought of that as what I do: I tell stories. -- Madonna Ciccone
When I first moved to New York, I wanted to be a dancer. I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence. I never tapped into nightlife; all I knew was dancers. We went to bed early and got up early and went to free concerts at the Lincoln Center and Shakespeare in the Park. -- Madonna Ciccone
Catholicism is a really mean religion, and it's incredibly hypocritical. But it plays a role in my life 'cause you can't really get a lot of things out of your head, such as what Jesus Christ looks like and that divorce is a horrible thing. -- Madonna Ciccone
All you need is your own imagination. So use it that's what it's for. -- Madonna Ciccone
There's no law that says that you cannot be a spiritual person and a sexual person. In fact, if you have the right consciousness, sex is like a prayer. It can be a divine experience. So why do they have to be disassociated with one another? -- Madonna Ciccone
My idea of the perfect man would be someone intelligent and clever enough, but also kind and compassionate enough to stand up to me - to stand up to me with compassion. -- Madonna Ciccone
There is a very modest side to me too. How far away from me is the image? It's about 20 steps away. -- Madonna Ciccone
I know I can feel bad, when I get in a bad mood, and the world can look so sad, only you make me feel good. -- Madonna Ciccone
I am a survivor. I am like a cockroach, you just can't get rid of me. -- Madonna Ciccone
I think passive beauties have their place in the world. It's hard for me to relate to that. -- Madonna Ciccone
I like film soundtracks. I like the soundtracks better than the movies. -- Madonna Ciccone
Imagine if someone like John Lennon or Bob Marley, Sid Vicious, Picasso, whomever, were doing their work, and some corporation, some CEO, some branding entity was saying to you, 'Well, you can do that, but you've got to remove this aspect of your work.' There would no longer be that purity anymore. -- Madonna Ciccone
I don't want no lies, I don't watch TV. I don't waste my time, won't read a magazine. -- Madonna Ciccone
With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems. -- Madonna Ciccone
It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity. -- Madonna Ciccone
On any given night, catch me on the floor, working up a sweat, that's what music's for. -- Madonna Ciccone
Rebel Heart changed everything. First of all, it drove me insane - and made me feel an overwhelming sense of anxiety. It made me second guess everything, because suddenly I thought, 'Oh god, everyone's heard all these demos.' -- Madonna Ciccone
Hey, wait a minute, I was a Spice Girl once! -- Madonna Ciccone
A lot of people saw Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland as persecuted and tragic and vulnerable, and I think a lot of gay men feel that way because of their particular predicament in society and not being accepted completely. -- Madonna Ciccone
I hate polite conversation. I hate it when people stand around and go, 'Hi, how are you?' I hate words that don't have any reason or meaning. Also I hate it when people smoke in elevators and closed in places. It's just so rude. -- Madonna Ciccone
I'm attracted to artists like Frida Kahlo, because her work was her life, her questions, her outrage, her suffering, her pain. Everything is in her work. -- Madonna Ciccone
There's no borderline for the things that I can say, do, and create ... -- Madonna Ciccone
Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent. -- Madonna Ciccone
Today I decided to sing in my underwear! No one seemed to mind! #loveyoufromtheinsideout. #artforfreedom -- Madonna Ciccone
Only the one that hurts you can make you feel better. Only the one that inflicts pain can take it away -- Madonna Ciccone
Go down where all life begins, go down that's where my love is. -- Madonna Ciccone
I wouldn't live in Chicago cause it's too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there. -- Madonna Ciccone
We go hard or we go home we gon' do this all night long! #werk -- Madonna Ciccone
I was thinking about dying the other day the death thought came while I was sitting on the toilet peeing - that's where I have my most contemplative thoughts. -- Madonna Ciccone
May the angels protect you, and sadness forget you. -- Madonna Ciccone
I'm disciplined. And I'm persevering. And I don't give up very easily ... and I'm reliable. -- Madonna Ciccone
I think the biggest reason I was able to express myself and not be intimidated was by not having a mother. For example, mothers teach you manners. And I absolutely did not learn any of those rules and regulations. -- Madonna Ciccone
Rita Haywood gave good face. -- Madonna Ciccone
New Yorkers your voices must be heard. Tell your state Congressmen to support same sex marriage bill. All you need is love -- Madonna Ciccone
I know there's a lot of competition in the world of magazines and newspapers and we have to make headlines and be sensational and sell, and saying bad things about me is going to sell more papers than writing good things about me. -- Madonna Ciccone
This will be a revolution of inquiring further, of not worrying about winning other people's approval, of not wishing you were someone else but perfectly content to be who you are. Someone unique, and rare, and fearless. I want to start a revolution of love. -- Madonna Ciccone
I dare you to read a book this weekend! War and Peace? To Kill a Mocking Bird? Catcher in the Rye? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter? For Whom the Bell Tolls? As i lay Dying? Giovanni's Room? The Bell Jar? These books changed my life. #artforfreedom #rebelheart -- Madonna Ciccone
Harder is Better! Post work out! Foot in the Ice Bath. A girl has to make a living! #hardcandytoronto. #addictedtosweat -- Madonna Ciccone
If you don't vote, you're going to get a spanking. -- Madonna Ciccone
One of the many things I learned from all of this: If you aren't willing to fight for what you believe in, then don't even enter the ring. -- Madonna Ciccone
There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something. -- Madonna Ciccone
Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends. -- Madonna Ciccone
And I feel faster than the speeding light. -- Madonna Ciccone
I like coming up with these spectacular extravaganzas that will, hopefully, totally blow people away. But I also like the intimacy of stopping it all and sitting at the edge of the stage and connecting with individual people in the audience. -- Madonna Ciccone
Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne. -- Madonna Ciccone
I am not reinventing myself. I am going through the layers and revealing myself. I am on a journey, an adventure that's constantly changing shape. -- Madonna Ciccone
Everyone who knows me thinks I'm a bit of a work Nazi. -- Madonna Ciccone
I'm a role model for those who dare to be different. For those who dare to take a stand in their life and have an opinion -- Madonna Ciccone
Believing in yourself and being willing to do anything, to walk through the fire, to do what it is that you want to do. Getting out of that car accident covered with blood to play the gig ... I mean, that's me. That's just me. -- Madonna Ciccone
Just like a prayer, your voice can take me there. -- Madonna Ciccone
Hurt that's not supposed to show, and tears that fall when no one knows. -- Madonna Ciccone
If you have to ask for something more than once or twice, it wasn't yours in the first place. And that's hard to accept when you love someone. -- Madonna Ciccone
People don't know what Kabbalah is, and so they jump to conclusions. For me, studying Kabbalah is studying - is just - is asking questions. And I encourage all of my children to be that way, and I think people don't understand that. And so they make assumptions and they judge. -- Madonna Ciccone
I think lines are meant to be crossed anyways. The entire time I was singing on the cross, there's numbers flipping over my head. You know, starting at one and going up to 12 million. -- Madonna Ciccone
In our house we don't use words like "despise" and 'hate,' we say "strongly dislike." -- Madonna Ciccone
Sleeping is the most difficult part of what I do, relaxing afterwards. Letting things go. -- Madonna Ciccone
Marriage? I don't know what I really think about marriage. I'm a bit confused on that issue. -- Madonna Ciccone
Do everything you're told. Be a good cheerleader. And never, never say, 'It's not so bad.' Say 'You are almost there!' And say it a lot. -- Madonna Ciccone
I tend to write during the day so I can see my children at night. But if my kids aren't with me and I have a chunk of time when I'm a single woman living in my house for a miraculous week, I will get to write at different hours. -- Madonna Ciccone
I came to the realization that a strong female is frightening to everybody, because all societies are male-dominated - black societies, poor people, rich people, any racial group, they're all dominated by men. A strong female is going to threaten everybody across the board. -- Madonna Ciccone
When I'm dead and no longer the threat. My comfort is that all the great artists since the beginning of time have always been completely misunderstood and never fully appreciated until they were dead. -- Madonna Ciccone
Sexism - you can't be sexy and intelligent. It's not allowed. -- Madonna Ciccone
I used mythology to tell the story [in Living with Love], with the story of the minotaur and the matador and fighting and fighting for love and the color red and flowers and horns and death and naked men. You know, the important things in life. -- Madonna Ciccone
I wanna kiss you in Paris
I wanna hold your hand in Rome -- Madonna Ciccone
Hollywood is about playing the game, and I can't think of any successful actresses who didn't play the game. There's a lot more renegades in the music business, from Patti Smith to Janis Joplin. -- Madonna Ciccone
Words are useless, especially sentences. -- Madonna Ciccone
I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion. -- Madonna Ciccone
You took a poison arrow and you aimed it at my heart. It's heavy and it's bitter, and it's tearing me apart. -- Madonna Ciccone
I chose to start my world tour in Israel for a very specific and important reason. As you know, the Middle East and all the conflicts that occur here and that have been occurring for thousands of years, they have to stop. You can't be a fan of mine and not want peace in the world. -- Madonna Ciccone
Economic markets are collapsing. People all over the world are suffering and people afraid. What happens when peep are afraid? They become intolerant. -- Madonna Ciccone
I keep telling everyone that I want to start a revolution but no one is taking me seriously. If I had black skin and an afro, would you take me seriously? If I was an Arab waving a hand grenade, would you take me seriously? -- Madonna Ciccone
I think there probably was a time when I was less provocative. That's when I was married. -- Madonna Ciccone
Hanging a noose on my door reeks of cowardice and fear on many, many levels. -- Madonna Ciccone
I'm opening gyms around the world to encourage people to get in shape and feel good about themselves; bringing art through dance to gyms to make my gyms different from other people's. -- Madonna Ciccone
I think art should be controversial. I think it should make people think. -- Madonna Ciccone
I think I had a lot of bad hair moments. In the early 80's just sometimes I wore purple lipstick or green lipstick. -- Madonna Ciccone
I'm not a reluctant pop star. I'm very grateful and happy for everything that I have and for things when they go well. On the other hand, I've had enough of the other side to know that if it doesn't, I will survive that and life goes on. -- Madonna Ciccone
I like the idea of going to one of those retreats where you don't speak - like, silence for five days. -- Madonna Ciccone
I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is. -- Madonna Ciccone
I don't give a damn if I go to hell. -- Madonna Ciccone
Raising kids makes most people, including me, grow up at least a little. -- Madonna Ciccone
The End of a long week with Viking Leader AKA DJ Virgo AKA Avicii! So many great songs! #icantwait #revolution -- Madonna Ciccone
Are you ready boots? Start Walking ... never look back. # artforfreedom # revolutionoflove -- Madonna Ciccone
Life's too short to be bitter, I'm too short to be bitter. -- Madonna Ciccone
Living For Love single and remixes available in UK soon! Sorry you have to wait! Its not my decision or my choice! Thanks for your patience! # rebelheart # livingforlove -- Madonna Ciccone
One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it. -- Madonna Ciccone
All the criticism is ultimately a blessing in disguise. Because now people know about Malawi [due to the child adoption]. And now people know about the orphans there. And hopefully it's gonna turn around. And a positive is gonna come out of the negative. -- Madonna Ciccone
Never forget who you are, little star. -- Madonna Ciccone
After years and years of everybody commenting on the way I look and dress and being photographed, one starts to become self-conscious and starts to plan things more. You end up judging yourself more, what looks good and what doesn't. -- Madonna Ciccone
Express yourself, don't repress yourself. -- Madonna Ciccone
I want the good life, but I don't want an easy ride. What I want is to work for it, feel the blood and sweat on my fingertips. -- Madonna Ciccone
I've always been acutely aware of differences and the way you are supposed to act if you want to be popular. -- Madonna Ciccone
It takes a Real man to fill my shoes. -- Madonna Ciccone
It takes more strength to cry, admit defeat. I have truth on my side, you only have deceit. -- Madonna Ciccone
I don't affiliate myself with any specific religious group. I connect to different ritualistic aspects of different belief systems, and I see the connecting thread between all religious beliefs. -- Madonna Ciccone
Honestly, I don't read newspapers, magazines, whatever. They're just not part of my lexicon. I don't want to be manipulated, or manipulated about other people's work. -- Madonna Ciccone
Happiness lies in your own hand -- Madonna Ciccone
I'll rest when I'm dead. I'm hungry and life is short! -- Madonna Ciccone
You only see what your eyes want to see. How can life be what you want it to be? -- Madonna Ciccone
Until I learned to love myself, I was never ever lovin' nobody else. -- Madonna Ciccone
One set of circumstances does not complete you. Maybe nothing ever does. So you work on your life and you work on your 'work' and you try to live every single day like it's your last. And you try to be better, to yourself and to others. I don't always succeed. But I try and it's my goal. -- Madonna Ciccone
That's what I mean about Catholicism - your sexual life is supposed to be dead if you're a good Catholic. That's wrong. It's human nature to be sexual, so why would God want you to deny your human nature? -- Madonna Ciccone
Popularity comes and goes. You need to know who you are, what you stand for, and why you're here. -- Madonna Ciccone
I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message. -- Madonna Ciccone
I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room. -- Madonna Ciccone
My mother died when I was five, and all I did was sit and cry. I cried and cried and cried all day, until the neighbors went away. -- Madonna Ciccone
Don't go for second best. Put your love to the test. -- Madonna Ciccone
I'll flirt with anyone from garbagemen to grandmothers. -- Madonna Ciccone
You're frozen when your heart's not open -- Madonna Ciccone
There's no greater power than the power of good-bye. -- Madonna Ciccone
But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere. -- Madonna Ciccone
As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person. -- Madonna Ciccone
I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being ... Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe. -- Madonna Ciccone
Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them. -- Madonna Ciccone
I've gone from having a huge fan base to losing a huge fan base to having a kind of fluctuating fan base. I've always had a core of fans who've stuck by me but, depending on the kind of music I do, I end up appealing to certain groups of people and alienating others. -- Madonna Ciccone
One of the things that helps me tell a story through music is to create a character. I have to have a muse, whether it's Frida Kahlo, Martha Graham, Marlene Dietrich, or Pippi Longstocking. -- Madonna Ciccone
I really saw myself as the quintessential Cinderella. I think that's when I really thought about how I wanted to do something else and get away from all that. -- Madonna Ciccone
Freedom comes when you learn to let go, creation comes when you learn to say 'no' -- Madonna Ciccone
To me punk rock is thinking outside of the box, outside of the program, outside the establishment. -- Madonna Ciccone
I guess I like to have fun. -- Madonna Ciccone
If any of you have seen my shows, you know that I don't skimp on them and the same is true for the gym. We spend what it takes to make a globally first-class gym. -- Madonna Ciccone
My father had to go to work, I used to think he was a jerk. I didn't know his heart was broken, and not another word was spoken. -- Madonna Ciccone
I'd like to think I am taking people on a journey; I am not just entertaining people, but giving them something to think about when they leave. -- Madonna Ciccone
You're getting angry, you know I can see. You're just jealous, cause you can't be me. -- Madonna Ciccone
And, it seems like a whole new generation of kids have discovered his genius and are bringing him to life again. I hope that wherever Michael is right now he is smiling about this. Yes, Michael Jackson was a human being but he was a king. Long live the king. -- Madonna Ciccone
I think love resides in all of the songs, even when they are overtly sexual. -- Madonna Ciccone
Acknowledge World Aids Day! Do what you can to help save lives! #livingforlove -- Madonna Ciccone
If it makes Tom Cruise happy, I don't care if he prays to turtles, ... And I don't think anybody else should. -- Madonna Ciccone
In everyday life I am quiet and reserved, not the housekeeper type but cool and relaxed. I don't get up in the morning wearing false eyelashes and I don't wear fancy underwear when I'm cooking popcorn. I'm a nice little ducky. -- Madonna Ciccone
In some respects I will never die. Because art is immortal. What we leave behind and what we create - the energy that we put out into the world is eternal. -- Madonna Ciccone
I've always wanted to be taller. I feel like a shrimp, but that's the way it goes. I'm five-foot four-and-a-half-inches - that's actually average. Everything about me is average. Everything's normal, in the books. It's the things inside me that make me not average. -- Madonna Ciccone
I refuse to act the way someone expects me to. -- Madonna Ciccone
What else is there for me to conquer? Hopefully my ego. How will I know when I've succeeded? When I stop caring what anyone thinks. -- Madonna Ciccone
I'm not going to compromise my artistic integrity. -- Madonna Ciccone
I believe what I practice has to do with something deeper than religion, that it embodies all religions, including Judaism. And Christianity. And Islam. -- Madonna Ciccone
I don't like guys my age because they are normally either married or divorced and grumpy, fat and balding. -- Madonna Ciccone
Some people out there think everything I do is a publicity stunt, they think when I go to the bathroom it's a publicity stunt. -- Madonna Ciccone
I feel like I've survived so much, and been through so much. And sometimes I miss the innocence of those times. Life was different. New York was different. The music business was different. I miss the simplicity of it, the naivete of everyone around me. -- Madonna Ciccone
I'm a gay man trapped in a woman's body. -- Madonna Ciccone
When I came to New York it was the first time I'd ever taken a plane, the first time I'd ever gotten a taxi-cab, the first time for everything. And I came here with 35 dollars in my pocket. It was the bravest thing I'd ever done. -- Madonna Ciccone
In my coming-of-age time, there was no internet, no social networking, nothing. It was just show after show, hoping one day somebody would notice you. -- Madonna Ciccone
The essence of femininity is to absolutely love being a woman. -- Madonna Ciccone
Fame gets you in the door but it doesn't keep you in the room. -- Madonna Ciccone
Power is a great aphrodisiac and I am a very powerful person -- Madonna Ciccone
I like to be a team player. All the projects I do are collaborations. And I want to solicit the opinions and help of other people. I'm not interested in being the one in charge. -- Madonna Ciccone
People think they will wake up one day and I'll be gone. But I'm never going away. -- Madonna Ciccone
You can be sexy, but you can't be 50 -- Madonna Ciccone
Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd. -- Madonna Ciccone
Having money is just the best thing in the world. -- Madonna Ciccone
I do think that the birth of my daughter was sort of a rebirth for me. It made me look at life in a completely new way. And that made me appreciate life in a way I don't think I ever had before. -- Madonna Ciccone
Farewell Gaultier!! Preteporte will miss you! 4 ever -- Madonna Ciccone
There's one thing you can't download and that's a live performance. And I know how to put on a show, and enjoy performing, and I'll always have that. -- Madonna Ciccone
You bring me to my knees, while I'm scratching out the eyes of a world I want to conquer, and deliver, and despise. And right while I am kneeling there, I suddenly begin to care. And understand that there could be a person that loves me. -- Madonna Ciccone
When I think about popular culture, I can't help but think that we're living in the age of loneliness. There's this illusion that we all have instant access to each other, but we actually have no real connection. -- Madonna Ciccone
The critics have been writing me off for 20 years. That's nothing new. As far as I know I still have plenty of fans and sell lots of records. Do I care what critics say about me? No, and I don't read reviews. -- Madonna Ciccone
If those civil rights groups are going into those orphanages and offering to look after those children, then they have every right to make a stink about it. But they're not. They're not offering a solution. -- Madonna Ciccone
I'm not particularly fond of kissing strange men-contrary to popular belief. -- Madonna Ciccone
I like that you have four minutes to zero in on something and evoke a specific feeling and take people on some sort of journey. -- Madonna Ciccone
The thing about dancing - what it taught me all those years - is it gives you an amazing sense of discipline in forcing yourself to do things that you know are good for you but you don't really want to do. -- Madonna Ciccone
Not only does society suffer from racism and sexism but it also suffers from ageism. Once you reach a certain age you're not allowed to be adventurous, you're not allowed to be sexual. I mean, is there a rule? Are you supposed to just die? -- Madonna Ciccone
Cease Fire ! Inshallah!!! Baruch Hashem!! Praise the Lord! #ceasefireforever #peaceinthemiddleeast #livingforlove -- Madonna Ciccone
The one thing I don't understand is when people make comments who are clearly not fans of mine. I think, why are you here? Why are you wasting your time? It's fascinating. -- Madonna Ciccone
I made a vow that I would never need another person ever. Turned my heart into a cage, a victim of a kind of rage. -- Madonna Ciccone
Who is my role model and how long can I keep this going? I just move around and do different things and come back to music, try making films and come back to music, write children's books and come back to music. -- Madonna Ciccone
In America it is not considered to be mentally ill when a woman advances on her prey in a discotheque setting with hardy cocktails present. -- Madonna Ciccone
One must dare to show what he wants. You have to go and ask for things rather than wait for them to happen. -- Madonna Ciccone
Manipulating people, that's what I'm good at -- Madonna Ciccone
I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices. -- Madonna Ciccone
I don't even remember why I called myself an idiot. I can be very harshly critical of myself. It depends on my mood, and obviously it depends on where I am in my life. Yes, embracing myself - I'm working on that. -- Madonna Ciccone
Younger people are generally more adventurous - they're more open, more fun - have you met many guys my age? Guys my age are married or divorced or grumpy, fat and balding. -- Madonna Ciccone
Everything looks true written down. What you read in National Enquirer and News Of The World looks true written down. -- Madonna Ciccone
I love the art form, but working in film can be a disheartening experience. -- Madonna Ciccone
You're so consumed with how much you get, you waste your time with hate and regret. -- Madonna Ciccone
I don't trust any man who hasn't kissed another man. -- Madonna Ciccone
Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don't take that job very lightly. Who they are, what they become and what they contribute to the world is very important to me. -- Madonna Ciccone
I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. -- Madonna Ciccone
I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really. -- Madonna Ciccone
I actually always try to have a moment in my show where I can just lay down on stage and talk to people for a little while. -- Madonna Ciccone
I am a tip-top starlet. That is my job that I am paid to do. -- Madonna Ciccone
I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against. -- Madonna Ciccone
I was used to dancing, but only when someone told you what to do. So in the nightclub I was all over the place, I combined everything. Street dance, modern dance, a bit of jazz and ballet, I was Twyla Tharp, I was Alvin Ailey, I was Michael Jackson. I didn't care, I was free. -- Madonna Ciccone
My daughter is a fan of mine but she doesn't want to be too obvious about it because I'm her mum and it's not cool. -- Madonna Ciccone
If I have a problem, I want to work it out, right now. -- Madonna Ciccone
Romance should be spontaneous, but in my career I'm totally in control. -- Madonna Ciccone
People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS. -- Madonna Ciccone
I think everybody has a bisexual nature. That's my theory. I could be wrong. -- Madonna Ciccone
With every breath, I'm deeper in you. -- Madonna Ciccone
I like to think I'm a role model for women. But I also don't like to just limit it to women. I like to think I'm a role model for human beings in general. -- Madonna Ciccone
I'd love to be a memorable figure in the history of entertainment in some sexual, comic, tragic way. I'd like to leave the impression that Marilyn Monroe did, to be able to arouse so many different feelings in people. -- Madonna Ciccone
He [Prince] changed the world!!A true visionary.What a loss.I'm devastated. -- Madonna Ciccone
My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment. -- Madonna Ciccone
I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing. -- Madonna Ciccone
When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day. -- Madonna Ciccone
I don't care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think. -- Madonna Ciccone
Making movies is really hard. It's the hardest thing I've ever done. -- Madonna Ciccone
A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that. -- Madonna Ciccone
Of course, my interests and my focus change and become more diverse, more worldly. At the same time, I am interested in the simple basics, which is I love to dance and I love to make people dance. -- Madonna Ciccone
We live in a very scary time. Or should I say we don't live at all. -- Madonna Ciccone
We're in the world of creating illusions and giving people the ability to dream and to be inspired or moved. -- Madonna Ciccone
If at first you don't succeed, you're obviously not me. -- Madonna Ciccone
Where you record is very important. It can't be too nice, it can't be too expensive, it can't have a view to an ocean or a field. -- Madonna Ciccone
I'm attracted to men who are going to stand up to me. -- Madonna Ciccone
Suffering is a big informer, a big catalyst for creation. You take your sadness, your despair, your sense of injustice, and you put it in your work. -- Madonna Ciccone
Why did God create men? Because vibrators can't mow the lawn. -- Madonna Ciccone
I really want to see everything. If it's around me and it's part of my show, I need to be a part of all of it. From the creation of the music, to the surface of the floor, to everyone's hairstyle, to the details with the buttons and the bows and the snaps and the zippers. All of those things! -- Madonna Ciccone
Yoga is a metaphor for life. You have to take it really slowly. You can't rush. You can't skip to the next position. You find yourself in very humiliating situations, but you can't judge yourself. You just have to breathe, and let go. It is a workout for your mind, your body and your soul. -- Madonna Ciccone
As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation. -- Madonna Ciccone
I worked for everything that I got and I worked long and hard before I got to this point so when I got it I thought I deserve it. -- Madonna Ciccone
I think that life is a paradox and you have to embrace that in your work and your belief systems ... You can't be a literalist, and that's the trouble that people always find themselves in. That's why people always hit a wall with any of my stuff, because you can't take it literally. -- Madonna Ciccone
I think they were scared of me because I was different. -- Madonna Ciccone
People have this idea that if you're sexual and beautiful and provocative, then there's nothing else you could possibly offer. -- Madonna Ciccone
We are living in a material world and I'm a material girl. -- Madonna Ciccone
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. -- Madonna Ciccone
The media is something that affects a lot of people, so you're constantly trying to strike a balance between respecting something and not caring about it. -- Madonna Ciccone
I don't think ultimately God punishes. I think we bring about our own destruction or our own creation. -- Madonna Ciccone
That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out. -- Madonna Ciccone
I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent. -- Madonna Ciccone
When I get down on my knees, it is not to pray. -- Madonna Ciccone
Let love shine and we will find a way to come together. -- Madonna Ciccone
I feel just as hungry today as I did the day I left home. -- Madonna Ciccone
Many people see Eva Peron as either a saint or the incarnation of Satan. That means I definitely can identify with her. -- Madonna Ciccone
Its boring not to take risks -- Madonna Ciccone
I don't take drugs. I never did. All the feelings that drugs are supposed to produce in you - confidence or energy - I can produce naturally. -- Madonna Ciccone
Hey you! Don't be silly! Put a rubber on your willie! -- Madonna Ciccone
I have great respect for Sean Penn. It's like most relationships that fail. It's not one thing, it's many thing that go on over a period of time. -- Madonna Ciccone
Bad girl, drunk by six, kissing someone else's lips. Smoked to many cigarettes today, I'm not happy when I act this way. -- Madonna Ciccone
People love pitting strong females against each other. -- Madonna Ciccone
Everyone went out and bought Sex, it was sold out in two seconds. And then everybody slagged me off. That, to me is a statement of the hypocrisy of the world that we live in. The fact that everybody is so interested in sex but won't admit it. -- Madonna Ciccone
There's a certain satisfaction in a little bit of pain. -- Madonna Ciccone
I've always been under scrutiny. But I used to just not really pay attention to what people said. -- Madonna Ciccone
And then, going to high school, I saw how popular girls had to behave to get the boys. I knew I couldn't fit into that. So I decided to do the opposite. I refused to wear makeup, to have a hairstyle. I refused to shave. I had hairy armpits. -- Madonna Ciccone
I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful. -- Madonna Ciccone
My home base - pop music and the Catholic Church. -- Madonna Ciccone
Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all. -- Madonna Ciccone
You have to reinvent to stay fresh, to stay in the game -- Madonna Ciccone
I am very proud to be Italian. -- Madonna Ciccone
Straight men need to be emasculated ... Every straight guy should have a man's tongue in his mouth at least once. -- Madonna Ciccone
If I was a girl again, I would like to be like my fans, I would like to be like Madonna. -- Madonna Ciccone
Strong women leave big hickies -- Madonna Ciccone
Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment. -- Madonna Ciccone
As much as I think I've inspired people in the world, I'd like to be more involved bringing about world peace. -- Madonna Ciccone
My nature is to provoke, that's true. I can't help myself. But it's always with good intentions. -- Madonna Ciccone
I'm guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night. -- Madonna Ciccone
Sometimes you just have to go and make a mess of things to get people to pay attention. -- Madonna Ciccone
Every actor wants to get their two cents in about a scene at the end of the day. -- Madonna Ciccone
I think they probably got it on, Jesus and Mary Magdalene. -- Madonna Ciccone
I think my biggest flaw is my insecurity. I'm terribly insecure. I'm plagued with insecurities 24/7. -- Madonna Ciccone
I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider. -- Madonna Ciccone
Who needs the sun, when the rain is so full of life? -- Madonna Ciccone
They're only words, unless they're true. -- Madonna Ciccone
Some girls they like candy and others they like to grind. I'll settle for the back of your hand somewhere on my behind. -- Madonna Ciccone
I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants. -- Madonna Ciccone
The self-confidence one builds from achieving difficult things and accomplishing goals is the most beautiful thing of all. -- Madonna Ciccone
I fear the future I wish for my children is at risk, so I'm taking action. Please join me ... -- Madonna Ciccone
I live - I live a highly scheduled life. There's absolutely no time wasted. I'm very focused. And I have a great assistant. -- Madonna Ciccone
People have no morals, I swear to God. The things that people do for ratings! It's unforgivable. -- Madonna Ciccone
Who needs a smile when a tear's so full of love? -- Madonna Ciccone
I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy' or 'What do you think of this?' -- Madonna Ciccone
People who listen to them properly don't underestimate them. Unfortunately, there's so much about my career and me that distracts people from the actual content of most of my songs. -- Madonna Ciccone
Before doing any interviews I like to know who I'm meeting with and get a bit of an idea of their sensibilities. -- Madonna Ciccone
Me and Mr. Brainwash in Toronto signing his mural at Hard Candy Fitness Opening! #artforfreedom -- Madonna Ciccone
I tried to be a boy, I tried to be a girl, I tried to be a mess. -- Madonna Ciccone
The definition of S & M is letting someone hurt you that you know would never hurt you. -- Madonna Ciccone
My priority is my family, absolutely, 100 percent. -- Madonna Ciccone
I ran to the forest, I ran to the trees. I ran and I ran, I was looking for me. -- Madonna Ciccone
It doesn't matter who you are, it's what you do that takes you far. -- Madonna Ciccone
Crucifixes are sexy because there's a naked man on them. -- Madonna Ciccone
I don't like rooms you never use or that are wasted space but I also like a sparseness and a cleanness. -- Madonna Ciccone
I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere. -- Madonna Ciccone
Fame is a by-product. It's not a goal. What matters is loving your work and loving what you do -- Madonna Ciccone
If it's bitter at the start, then it's sweeter in the end. -- Madonna Ciccone
A fire lit under my ass? Yeah, that's true. No time to waste. -- Madonna Ciccone
Publicly humiliating someone for your own gain will only come and haunt you. God's going to have his revenge. -- Madonna Ciccone
Love is a bird ... she needs to fly -- Madonna Ciccone
Ever since my daughter was born I feel the fleetingness of time. And I don't want to waste it on getting the perfect lip color. -- Madonna Ciccone
Beauty's where you find it; not just where you bump and grind it. -- Madonna Ciccone
A good relationship is a competition of generosity. -- Madonna Ciccone
My daughter's birth was like a rebirth for me. -- Madonna Ciccone
I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs. -- Madonna Ciccone
I have the most perfect belly button. When I stick my fingers in it, I feel a nerve in the center of my body shoot up my spine. -- Madonna Ciccone
I see a huge paradox in me - the intense need to be loved and the search for approval juxtaposed with the need to nurture other people, to be the mother I never had. -- Madonna Ciccone
I was more of a dancing kid than a singing kid. I mean, I sang in school choirs and I sang in school musicals, but I was much more interested in dancing than singing. -- Madonna Ciccone
I might be responsible for as many gay marriages as I am for heterosexual divorces. -- Madonna Ciccone
Art can heal it if art is allowed to exist. And if art is slowly wiped off the face of the planet, then what tools do we have to reach people, to appeal to them and all of their senses? -- Madonna Ciccone
Hollywood, how can it hurt you when it looks so good? -- Madonna Ciccone
I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl: I want to rule the world. -- Madonna Ciccone
I want people to be moved, to feel called to action. That's what I want to do. -- Madonna Ciccone
I try to have thick skin, but every once in a while I read something that someone says about me, and it's so slanderous and moralistic and it has nothing to do with my music. -- Madonna Ciccone
Once you start turning over rocks and reaching out to help people, there's a whole avalanche coming right behind it. And it seems never-ending. But when you see the fruits of your labor, you feel like it's possible. -- Madonna Ciccone
Powerful women are a threat in any society which is why I am such a target. -- Madonna Ciccone
I was sacked from Dunkin' Donuts for squirting the donuts jelly all over the customers. -- Madonna Ciccone
I've always danced and exercised. I can't imagine not doing it. I'll be Martha Graham in my 90s doing contractions on the floor. -- Madonna Ciccone
I do not support Hamas! I support human dignity and respect! I support sharing! I support Peace! #ceasefire -- Madonna Ciccone
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. -- Madonna Ciccone
For me, it's all about being in a tiny room with little windows. It's almost like you have to be in a prison. -- Madonna Ciccone
Being able to step outside of yourself in order to help someone else is why we're all here, it's what we should all be doing if we can. -- Madonna Ciccone
I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices. -- Madonna Ciccone
The thing I like least about being famous is being overly scrutinized for everything I say and do. -- Madonna Ciccone
I don't think I have to introduce myself, unless you don't recognize me with my clothes on. -- Madonna Ciccone
I don't think about my old stuff. I just move forward. -- Madonna Ciccone
I do think of myself as a queen, but I don't think I'm the only queen. There's room for other queens. We reign over different kingdoms. -- Madonna Ciccone
My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don't agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do something, he didn't do it either. -- Madonna Ciccone
My favorite scene that I ever filmed was singing "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" from the balcony of the Casa Rosada in Argentina [where the real Eva Peron once stood] during Evita. That was amazing. SO real and surreal. Bizarre. -- Madonna Ciccone
Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on. -- Madonna Ciccone
Truth is never far behind. -- Madonna Ciccone
Unconsciously transmitting ideas to the other MC way back when ... ,,,..#quantum -- Madonna Ciccone
My work gives me a sense of purpose that I never really had before - it gives me a lot of joy, and it would be wonderful to invite other people to get involved. -- Madonna Ciccone
I hope that I inspire women to believe in themselves, no matter where they come from; no matter what education they have; what particular background they originate from. -- Madonna Ciccone
You can tell how much fun a city is going to be if Nobu is in it. -- Madonna Ciccone
Never forget to dream. -- Madonna Ciccone
You didn't understand or care to know, you get your education from your lovers. -- Madonna Ciccone
I became an overachiever to get approval from the world ... -- Madonna Ciccone
I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me. I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's buttons. -- Madonna Ciccone
When we take a picture, we have a negative. We put the right solution on it and, suddenly, the picture comes to life. So what do we do? We take the negative and turn it into a positive. -- Madonna Ciccone
Nothing cheers a girl up like SHOPPING! -- Madonna Ciccone
I feel like everybody needs to take a sabbatical and go to Russia and Africa and work in orphanages and really witness true suffering. And then you'll just feel ridiculous for ever complaining about anything. Everybody needs that kind of reality check. -- Madonna Ciccone
If you're going to be an artist, real life is your inspiration. -- Madonna Ciccone
It's none of your business what people say about you. -- Madonna Ciccone
Say hello to your life. -- Madonna Ciccone
I'm not claiming to appeal to the same people that Christina Aguilera or Britney Spears are going to appeal to. I'm not trying to. I'm doing what I want to do. -- Madonna Ciccone
I'm sure other people have a very strange view of my lifestyle. -- Madonna Ciccone
You'll always be two steps behind me. -- Madonna Ciccone
It's not my nature to just kick back. -- Madonna Ciccone
I think most children who are adopted ultimately want to meet their biological parents and often do. I think that is an important journey for children who are adopted to go on. -- Madonna Ciccone
I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful. -- Madonna Ciccone
I didn't set out to write certain kinds of songs - I just set out to write good songs. -- Madonna Ciccone
When you make a movie, it's just a huge bureaucracy because movies cost so much money. Millions of people get involved, and pretty soon the creative idea gets tramped on and watered down or filtered through a huge system. -- Madonna Ciccone
Because I've taken my clothes off in public doesn't mean that I've revealed every inch of my soul. -- Madonna Ciccone
Nothing really matters; love is all we need. -- Madonna Ciccone
I suffered fools so gladly. -- Madonna Ciccone
Filmmaking is such a collaboration. At a certain point, I suppose you do have to let go and trust the people you're working with. -- Madonna Ciccone
I'm very grateful that I had work to do. I may have thrown myself off a building. -- Madonna Ciccone
If you're sure of who you are it doesn't really matter what people call you, does it? -- Madonna Ciccone
I'm not sorry, it's human nature. -- Madonna Ciccone
Every time I reach a new peak, I see a new one I want to climb. -- Madonna Ciccone
Being loved keeps you young. -- Madonna Ciccone
I don't have a religion because I don't like that word religion. -- Madonna Ciccone
Let's forget about time
And dance our lives away -- Madonna Ciccone
We like to put people on a pedestal, give them one character trait, and if they step outside of that shrinelike area that we blocked out for them, then we will punish them. -- Madonna Ciccone
Death was a big part of my life growing up. I went to lots of funerals. -- Madonna Ciccone
Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing. -- Madonna Ciccone
Isn't everyone just travelling down their own road watching the signs as they go? -- Madonna Ciccone
The next time you want pussy, just look in the mirror baby -- Madonna Ciccone
I was a buffoon and an idiot until the age of forty -- Madonna Ciccone
I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist. -- Madonna Ciccone
I've slept with Prince. -- Madonna Ciccone
I do some of my best stand-up comedy during sound checks. -- Madonna Ciccone
When the day is done the most important thing is loving people and sharing love. -- Madonna Ciccone
Education is not a luxury, it is a basic human right. -- Madonna Ciccone
I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone. -- Madonna Ciccone
If the land of make believe is inside your heart it will never leave. -- Madonna Ciccone
The world is not so kind, people trap your mind. -- Madonna Ciccone
Make no mistake, Madonna is always in control of the image she wants you to see. -- Madonna Ciccone
When you are raised to believe that anything having to do with sex is forbidden and taboo, then of course that's all you want to know about. That becomes your complete and utter fascination. That is the surest way to interest a child. -- Madonna Ciccone
I know where beauty lives, I've seen it once, I know the warmth she gives. -- Madonna Ciccone
People who have nothing better to do than talk about my hair color have no lives. -- Madonna Ciccone
The ultimate moment where I mostrong>ststrong> felt like a rebel was in St. Petersburg, Russia [in 2012 during the MDNA Tour] when I was told they were going to arrestrong>ststrong> anyone who was openly or obviously gay and they came to my shows and I spoke out againstrong>ststrong> the government. -- Madonna Ciccone
