Madonna Ciccone Quotes

Making records is not how it used to be! #stillwerking

Love is a bird... she needs to fly.

Yoga is a metaphor for life. You have to take it really slowly. You can't rush. You can't skip to the next position. You find yourself in very humiliating situations, but you can't judge yourself. You just have to breathe, and let go. It is a workout for your mind, your body and your soul.

Who needs the sun, when the rain is so full of life?

Let love shine and we will find a way to come together.

When I first moved to New York I wanted to be a dancer, I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence.

I think passive beauties have their place in the world. It's hard for me to relate to that.

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.

I could bring you so much pleasure, erotic, erotic, put your hands all over my body.

I don't want no lies, I don't watch TV. I don't waste my time, won't read a magazine.

I'm not crazy about how sort of homogenized pop music become. It used to be much more diverse. Maybe it's just what's played on the radio sounds very much the same.

I do think that the birth of my daughter was sort of a rebirth for me. It made me look at life in a completely new way. And that made me appreciate life in a way I don't think I ever had before.

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 hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

If I have to be the person who opens the door for women to believe and understand and embrace the idea that they can be sexual and look good and be as relevant in their 50s or their 60s as they were in their 20s, then so be it.

Everyone has a self-destructive nature in them. It's whether you feed it or not. You don't have to be a pop star to feel connected to destruction or self-destruction. But self-destruction is self-obsession, and self-obsession is not really possible if you're engaged in raising children. And if you have a spiritual life, you're constantly being asked to see yourself as one small fragment in the bigger picture.

There is order in the universe, even though it looks like chaos. We separate the world into categories: this is good and this is bad. But life is set up to trick us. It's a series of illusions we invest in. And ultimately those investments don't serve our understanding, because physicality is always going to let you down, because physicality doesn't last.

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

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.

I've gone from having a huge fan base to losing a huge fan base to having a kind of fluctuating fan base. I've always had a core of fans who've stuck by me but, depending on the kind of music I do, I end up appealing to certain groups of people and alienating others.

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

To me, the whole process of being a brush stroke in someone else's painting is a little difficult

I think they were scared of me because I was different. I've always asked, 'Why? Why do I have to do that? Why do I have to look this way? Why do I have to dress this way? Why do I have to behave this way?'

It's always exciting for me to perform.

I know there's a lot of competition in the world of magazines and newspapers and we have to make headlines and be sensational and sell, and saying bad things about me is going to sell more papers than writing good things about me.

I am because we are. We all bleed the same color. We all want to love and be loved.

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

The fact of the matter is that you can use your beauty and use your charm and be flirtatious, and you can get people interested in your beauty. But you cannot maintain that. In the end, talent is the only thing. My work is the only thing that's going to change any minds.

RIP George Michael. I can't believe it. Such an incredible singer and a lovely human being, far too young to leave us.

There's a certain satisfaction in a little bit of pain.

Everyone is entitled to my opinion

I used to believe in the pretty pictures that were all around me, but now I know for sure that I was stupid.

George [Michael], I want your sex, so be my father figure and I will have faith if we have to live hand-to-mouth. The diva himself.

Farewell Gaultier!! Preteporte will miss you! ❤ ❤ ❤ 4 ever

I've been practicing yoga very seriously for a little over a year and I believe that helped my voice and affected my singing.

I shouldn't have stayed so long away. Every time I come here, I get so supercharged with energy. I truly believe that Israel is the energy centre of the world. And I also believe that if we can all live together in harmony in this place, then we can live in peace all over the world.

Before doing any interviews I like to know who I'm meeting with and get a bit of an idea of their sensibilities.

A lot of people are just really confused by me; they don’t know what to think of me, so they try to compartmentalize me or diminish me. Maybe they just feel unsafe. But any time you have an overtly emotional or irrational, negative reaction to something, you’re fearing something that it’s bringing up in you.

I don't like to be provocative for the sake of being provocative.

I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere.

I was never satisfied with casual encounters, I can't hide my need for two hearts that bleed with burning love.

I think the biggest reason I was able to express myself and not be intimidated was by not having a mother. For example, mothers teach you manners. And I absolutely did not learn any of those rules and regulations.

You're so consumed with how much you get, you waste your time with hate and regret.

You're getting angry, you know I can see. You're just jealous, cause you can't be me.

Never forget who you are, little star.

I'll stop doing everything that I do when I don't want to do it anymore.

I like to be provocative.

I'm not claiming to appeal to the same people that Christina Aguilera or Britney Spears are going to appeal to. I'm not trying to. I'm doing what I want to do.