Madonna Ciccone Quotes

I don't care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think.

With every breath, I'm deeper in you.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

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 became an overachiever to get approval from the world.

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

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

I always acted like a star long before I was one.

I laugh at myself. I don't take myself completely seriously. I think that's another quality that people have to hold on to... you have to laugh, especially at yourself.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

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

I want to appeal to people's sense of humanity and interconnectedness. I feel like I have the platform I'm standing on for a reason. It's not just to make people happy and get people to dance and sing, to feel an escape. It's also to get people to listen and to bring important issues to the forefront.

Sometimes you just have to go and make a mess of things to get people to pay attention.

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

Sure, having my pictures taken in the nude and doing things that I did got me in the door but it didn't keep me in the room. To have lasted as long as I've lasted, obviously, I have to have something more going for me.

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.

If you want to change the world, change yourself.

We've made so many advances in other areas - civil rights, gay rights - but ageism is still an area that's taboo and not talked about and dealt with.

I love meetings with suits. I live for meetings with suits. I love them because I know they had a really boring week and I walk in there with my orange velvet leggings and drop popcorn in my cleavage and then fish it out and eat it. I like that. I know I'm entertaining them and I know that they know.

If you want something bad enough the whole world conspires to help you get it.

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.

There's one thing you can't download and that's a live performance. And I know how to put on a show, and enjoy performing, and I'll always have that.

Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is.

Why did I want to break all the rules? Because the rules didn’t make sense, that’s why

I am not reinventing myself. I am going through the layers and revealing myself. I am on a journey, an adventure that's constantly changing shape.

I hope I will always have the ability to create art and live in a world where I can speak freely, and I can inspire people. I don't know what form that will take.

It's none of your business what people say about you.

Never forget to dream.

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

Sex is the most fun you can have without smiling.

Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots cause it's okay to be a boy. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading cause you think being a girl is degrading

We live in a world where people like to pit women against each other. And this is why I love the idea of embracing other females who are doing what I'm doing. It's important for us to support each other.

Popularity comes and goes. You need to know who you are, what you stand for, and why you're here.

Express yourself, don't repress yourself.

A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.

I feel that most gay men are so much more in touch with a certain kind of sensitivity that heterosexual men aren't allowed to be in touch with, their feminine side. To me they're whole human beings, more so than most of the straight men that I know.

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 just like the idea of pills. I like to collect them but not actually take them. When I fell off my horse, I got tons of stuff: Demerol and Vicodin and Xanax and Valium and Oxycontin, which is supposed to be like heroin. And I'm quite scared to take them. I'm a control freak.

I have the most perfect belly button. When I stick my fingers in it, I feel a nerve in the center of my body shoot up my spine.

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'm so used to people slagging me off. Since the beginning of my career I've been told I have no talent, I can't sing and I'm a one-hit wonder.

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.

I don't trust any man who hasn't kissed another man.

My nature is to provoke, that's true. I can't help myself. But it's always with good intentions.

I didn't set out to write certain kinds of songs - I just set out to write good songs.

I was sacked from Dunkin' Donuts for squirting the donuts jelly all over the customers.

When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.

I wouldn't say I wanna conquer the world anymore. But I want to be a part of making the world a better place. I want to inspire people and I wanna be part of the solution.