Madonna Ciccone Quotes

I don't care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think.

With every breath, I'm deeper in you.

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

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

I always acted like a star long before I was one.

Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.

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

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

Sometimes you just have to go and make a mess of things to get people to pay attention.

If you want to change the world, change yourself.

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.

If you want something bad enough the whole world conspires to help you get it.

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.

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.

Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is.

Why did I want to break all the rules? Because the rules didn’t make sense, that’s why

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.

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.

It's none of your business what people say about you.

Never forget to dream.

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots cause it's okay to be a boy. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading cause you think being a girl is degrading

Popularity comes and goes. You need to know who you are, what you stand for, and why you're here.

Express yourself, don't repress yourself.

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.

A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.

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.

I'm so used to people slagging me off. Since the beginning of my career I've been told I have no talent, I can't sing and I'm a one-hit wonder.

Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.

My nature is to provoke, that's true. I can't help myself. But it's always with good intentions.

I was sacked from Dunkin' Donuts for squirting the donuts jelly all over the customers.

I didn't set out to write certain kinds of songs - I just set out to write good songs.

I don't trust any man who hasn't kissed another man.

Manipulating people, that's what I'm good at

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.

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.

No one knows you better than you know yourself. Do the thing you want. Don't wait for someone else

Bad girl, drunk by six, kissing someone else's lips. Smoked to many cigarettes today, I'm not happy when I act this way.

When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.

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.

I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.

To me, the whole process of being a brush stroke in someone else's painting is a little difficult

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.

If you're sure of who you are it doesn't really matter what people call you, does it?

It doesn't matter who you are, it's what you do that takes you far.

Every time I reach a new peak, I see a new one I want to climb.

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.

Being loved keeps you young.