Madonna Ciccone Quotes

When I get down on my knees, it is not to pray.

They're only words, unless they're true.

When you're writing something and you know it's good, you get flushed, you can feel the blood coursing through your veins, you feel alive, all your nerve endings stand up, something just clicks.

Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.

My daughter's birth was like a rebirth for me.

My daughter has a problem picking things up in her room. So if you leave your clothes on the floor, so if you leave your clothes on the floor, they're gone when you come home.

People think they will wake up one day and I'll be gone. But I'm never going away.

I think that its an artist's responsibility to have a point of view. Society takes its cue from popular art. People need something to look to, something to provoke them into questioning whether they completely hate something or completely love something.

I don't think evil is sexy! I don't think being cruel and mean and hurting other people is sexy! ... Although I have been quite attracted to some very bad boys!

I was working with Toby Gad, who spent a lot of time in India. There's a sitar [in "Body Shop"] and the song has a very Indian flavor to it. I liked the idea of the body of a car as a kind of sexual metaphor - What you do to a car, what you do in a car - drive. So, lots of innuendos, and lots of fun.

Never forget to dream.

One of the many things I learned from all of this: If you aren't willing to fight for what you believe in, then don't even enter the ring.

Rebel Heart changed everything. First of all, it drove me insane - and made me feel an overwhelming sense of anxiety. It made me second guess everything, because suddenly I thought, 'Oh god, everyone's heard all these demos.'

What else is there for me to conquer? Hopefully my ego. How will I know when I've succeeded? When I stop caring what anyone thinks.

I’m a role model for those who dare to be different. For those who dare to take a stand in their life and have an opinion

I love being photographed, or I should say I love the art of photography. It's about people taking photographs of you, stealing them, and then presuming or assuming or captioning. Words can never be taken back, photographs can never be taken back, nothing can ever be taken back.

Hurt that's not supposed to show, and tears that fall when no one knows.

I think the ultimate challenge is to have some kind of style and grace, even though you haven't got money, or standing in society, or formal education. I had a very middle, lower-middle class sort of upbringing, but I identify with people who've had, at some point in their lives to struggle to survive. It adds another color to your character.

It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity.

No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.

I tried to be a boy, I tried to be a girl, I tried to be a mess.

I think my biggest flaw is my insecurity. I'm terribly insecure. I'm plagued with insecurities 24/7.

I hadn't been onstage in a while. The last time was pre-children. And before I went on [at Roseland], my kids were backstage, and I thought, This isn't how I usually do it. I've got kids, and I'm thinking, This is weird. It's weird juggling children on your knee while you're in your rhinestone outfit. And I'm thinking, Okay, I'm gonna go out and do a show and I'm gonna be Superwoman! But I'm not really, `cause I'm a mom. It's all very strange.

Some people are medicating themselves all the time so that they don't have to embrace themselves. If you can't feel, you can't embrace.

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

I don't care anymore if people dress like me, now I want them to think like me.

Losing my virginity was a career move.

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

A lot of people saw Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland as persecuted and tragic and vulnerable, and I think a lot of gay men feel that way because of their particular predicament in society and not being accepted completely.

Hanging a noose on my door reeks of cowardice and fear on many, many levels.

It's not easy having a good marriage--but I don't want easy. Easy doesn't make you grow. Easy doesn't make you think. I thank God everyday that I am married to a man who makes me think. That's my definition of true love.

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.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

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

Bad habits die hard...........❤ #livingforlove ❤ #rebelheart

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.

Getting lit! Full Disclosure............#dancing #fun #life #livingforlove

You only see what your eyes want to see. How can life be what you want it to be?

Ever since my daughter was born I feel the fleetingness of time. And I don't want to waste it on getting the perfect lip color.

I'm liking the idea more and more of just standing up with a microphone and talking.

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.

I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.

I loved Prince then, I love him now and will love him eternally. He's with our son now.

I like to touch people's hearts.

The definition of S & M is letting someone hurt you that you know would never hurt you.

My father had to go to work, I used to think he was a jerk. I didn't know his heart was broken, and not another word was spoken.

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.

Its better to live a goat than 100 sheep.