Madonna Ciccone Quotes
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.
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.
Me and Mr. Brainwash in Toronto signing his mural at Hard Candy Fitness Opening! #artforfreedom
I've created a very unconventional family. I have lovers who are three decades younger than me. This makes people very uncomfortable.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
If you have an opinion and people disagree with you, you might not get a job. You might be blacklisted. You might have fewer followers on Instagram.
There are any number of things that would be detrimental to your career. Everyone's really afraid.
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?
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.
Are you ready boots? Start Walking.....never look back. # artforfreedom # revolutionoflove
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.
Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.
I do not support Hamas! I support human dignity and respect! I support sharing! I support Peace! #ceasefire
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.
I don't like guys my age because they are normally either married or divorced and grumpy, fat and balding.
On any given night, catch me on the floor, working up a sweat, that’s what music’s for.
Sleeping is the most difficult part of what I do, relaxing afterwards. Letting things go.
I don't believe there's a certain age where you can't say and feel and be who you want to be.
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.
David Bowie really played with ideas, and iconography and imagery. He's brilliant man. And a gentleman, too.
I like pushing the envelope. But I don't like to do it just for the sake of doing it.
Economic markets are collapsing. People all over the world are suffering and people afraid. What happens when peep are afraid? They become intolerant.
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.
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.
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.