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 CicconeI'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.
Madonna CicconeI've always been under scrutiny. But I used to just not really pay attention to what people said.
Madonna CicconeTrying to be a professional dancer, paying my rent by posing nude for art classes, staring at people staring at me naked. Daring them to think of me as anything but a form they were trying to capture with their pencils and charcoal. I was defiant. Hell-bent on surviving. On making it. But it was hard and it was lonely, and I had to dare myself every day to keep going.
Madonna Ciccone