Children always think they did something wrong when their parents disappear. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
My father had to go to work, I used to think he was a jerk. I didn't know his heart was broken,… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
My mother died when I was five, and all I did was sit and cry. I cried and cried and cried all… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
George [Michael], I want your sex, so be my father figure and I will have faith if we have to live hand-to-mouth.… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I was named after my mother. And I guess when I started making records, Madonna Ciccone seemed too long and complicated, and… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I love being a mother. My children fill me up in many ways, and inspire me in many ways, but I need… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I see a huge paradox in me - the intense need to be loved and the search for approval juxtaposed with the… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I think most children who are adopted ultimately want to meet their biological parents and often do. I think that is an… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I think the biggest reason I was able to express myself and not be intimidated was by not having a mother. For… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don't take that job very… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Obviously, my tastes and my priorities have changed. But I'm still asking the question 'Why?' Just because I'm a mother doesn't mean… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
My father was very strict with me, and I kept seeing a disparity between their freedom and my lack of it, or… — 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