Madonna Ciccone Quotes

I panic every time I put out a record. I think every artist does.

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.

People have this idea that if you're sexual and beautiful and provocative, then there's nothing else you could possibly offer.

Death was a big part of my life growing up. I went to lots of funerals.

I think art should be controversial. I think it should make people think.

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.

We all need to treat each other with human dignity and respect

I'll flirt with anyone from garbagemen to grandmothers.

My point of view and philosophy continues to change and grow. As the years go by you go through this evolution.

We're in the world of creating illusions and giving people the ability to dream and to be inspired or moved.

If at first you don't succeed, you're obviously not me.

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.

I believe in equal rights for all people.

I think they were scared of me because I was different.

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.

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.

People have no morals, I swear to God. The things that people do for ratings! It's unforgivable.

The only way I've been able to survive the betrayal of lovers, family members, and society is to be able to create as an artist.

I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.

I am a survivor. I am like a cockroach, you just can't get rid of me.

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.

I'll stop when I run out of ideas.

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.

He [Prince] changed the world!!A true visionary.What a loss.I'm devastated.

I think you can be defiant and rebellious and still be strong and positive.

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.

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.

Why did God create men? Because vibrators can't mow the lawn.

I'm not going to compromise my artistic integrity.

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.

I don't think ultimately God punishes. I think we bring about our own destruction or our own creation.

Straight men need to be emasculated.... Every straight guy should have a man's tongue in his mouth at least once.

One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.

When the day is done the most important thing is loving people and sharing love.

Thanks for all the birthday love! I feel like the luckiest girl in the world today!

There is a very modest side to me too. How far away from me is the image? It's about 20 steps away.

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.

I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful.

I've had so many challenges throughout my career, however successful people perceive me to be.

Only the one that hurts you can make you feel better. Only the one that inflicts pain can take it away

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.

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.

I was a buffoon and an idiot until the age of forty

Love´s nothing else than a war in which both are the winners.

The essence of femininity is to absolutely love being a woman.

I learned a lot about humility and patience, keeping my mouth shut.

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.

If I was a girl again, I would like to be like my fans, I would like to be like Madonna.

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.

I'm sure other people have a very strange view of my lifestyle.