I wanted to be famous. I wanted everybody to love me. I wanted to be a star. I worked really hard and… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
When I first moved to New York I wanted to be a dancer, I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I really saw myself as the quintessential Cinderella. I think that's when I really thought about how I wanted to do something… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
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… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a nun. I saw nuns as superstars. When I was growing up I went to a Catholic school,… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I loved nuns when I was growing up. I thought they were beautiful. For several years I wanted to be a nun.… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be taller. I feel like a shrimp, but that's the way it goes. I'm five-foot four-and-a-half-inches - that's… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
When I first moved to New York, I wanted to be a dancer. I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence.… — 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
I went to New York. I had a dream. I wanted to be a big star, I didn’t know anybody, I wanted… — 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
I wanted to know why people follow rules blindly, or why girls had to act a certain way and boys didn't. Why… — 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
