Madonna Ciccone Quotes

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.

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.

Power is a great aphrodisiac and I am a very powerful person

You gave me back the paradise That I thought I lost for good You helped me find the reasons why It took me by surprise that you understood You knew all along What I never wanted to say Until I learned to love myself I was never ever lovin' anybody else.

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.

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

Life's too short to be bitter, I'm too short to be bitter.

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I feel just as hungry today as I did the day I left home.

With every breath, I'm deeper in you.

I don't believe there's a certain age where you can't say and feel and be who you want to be.

If it's bitter at the start, then it's sweeter in the end.

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!!

If we took a holiday, took some time to celebrate, just one day out of life, it would be, it would be so nice.

And I feel faster than the speeding light.

I'll rest when I'm dead. I'm hungry and life is short!

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?

I do see that the world that we live in is collapsing to a certain extent, and civilization as we know it is caving in on itself. 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.

I think there probably was a time when I was less provocative. That's when I was married.

Many people see Eva Peron as either a saint or the incarnation of Satan. That means I definitely can identify with her.

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.

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

When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that's how I really got into the music business. But I didn't like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there.

I'm very grateful that I had work to do. I may have thrown myself off a building.

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

Oh sure, I have lots of fears. My job is to conquer my fears. The irony of being a performer is that I have huge insecurities. Each of us is responsible for what happens in our lives. When good things happen, we take ownership, but when bad things happen we often don't take responsibility. There are no mistakes or accidents. Consciousness is everything and all things begin with a thought. We are responsible for our own fate. We reap what we sow, we get what we give and we pull in what we put out.

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.

In the midnight hour I can feel your power...

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.

You can tell how much fun a city is going to be if Nobu is in it.

If I have a problem, I want to work it out, right now.

Economic markets are collapsing. People all over the world are suffering and people afraid. What happens when peep are afraid? They become intolerant.

I don't have a religion because I don't like that word religion.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I'm obsessed with clowns and what they represent and the idea that clowns are supposed to make you laugh, but inevitably they're hiding something. That's how I look at my life.

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.

My father was very strict with me, and I kept seeing a disparity between their freedom and my lack of it, or how I had all the responsibilities and they had none. And the Catholic Church, all of the rules, and why did I have to wear a dress when they could wear pants? I would say to my dad: 'Will Jesus love me less if I wear pants? Am I going to hell?'

I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.

I wouldn't live in Chicago cause it's too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there.

I cheat on my books a lot, which is not a good thing because it's good to stick with one book and get to the end of it, but I'm a book philanderer.

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.

Everyone who knows me thinks I'm a bit of a work Nazi.

Go down where all life begins, go down that's where my love is.

I refuse to live a conventional life.

I always thought I should be treated like a star.