I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I didn't set out to write certain kinds of songs - I just set out to write good songs. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
On any given night, catch me on the floor, working up a sweat, that’s what music’s for. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I try to have thick skin, but every once in a while I read something that someone says about me, and it's… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
One of the things that helps me tell a story through music is to create a character. I have to have a… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I really want to see everything. If it's around me and it's part of my show, I need to be a part… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Who is my role model and how long can I keep this going? I just move around and do different things and… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in electronica, techno, trip-hop, that kind of music. The thing that bothered me about a lot of that… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
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… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
When I discovered that I could write music, it felt like the most natural way for me to connect with people and… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
My goal from the very beginning was just to write good songs that don't require any production to be felt or understood.… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Whenever I do my live shows, I feel artistically inspired and excited because I get to do and say a lot of… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
In some respects I will never die. Because art is immortal. What we leave behind and what we create - the energy that we… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
The thing I love most about being famous is people listening to me when I have something important to say. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
People have no morals, I swear to God. The things that people do for ratings! It's unforgivable. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I'm very grateful that I had work to do. I may have thrown myself off a building. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
The beast is the modern world that we live in! The material world. The physical world. The world of illusion that we think is… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Being blond is definitely a different state of mind. I can't really put my finger on it, but the artifice of being blond has… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
