Just because I'm presented life in a certain way doesn't mean I do all these things. It's just something I choose to… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I think after time goes by and you earn certain rights or you break through certain barriers, you could sometimes, maybe, take… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
If I can't be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don't really see the point… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I think they were scared of me because I was different. I've always asked, 'Why? Why do I have to do that?… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent. — 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
There isn't a performer on earth that isn't an exhibitionist. There isn't any point in being in this business if you're not… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I think for the most part men have always been the aggressors sexually. Through time immemorial they've always been in control. So… — 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
Unconsciously transmitting ideas to the other MC way back when............,,,..#quantum — 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
Bad girl, drunk by six, kissing someone else's lips. Smoked to many cigarettes today, I'm not happy when I act this way. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
A lot of people saw Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland as persecuted and tragic and vulnerable, and I think a lot of… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I have had many challenges in my life, including some very big ones when I was young and I've learned a lot… — 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
When I left Michigan and I came to New York, that was my goal, to be a professional dancer. And I sort… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I'd love to be a memorable figure in the history of entertainment in some sexual, comic, tragic way. I'd like to leave… — 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
I felt very awkward and out of place in school. Not popular, not attractive, not special in any way and I was… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
It's not enough to raise awareness. You have to give people solutions, and you have to invite them to get involved in… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I think there are just as many assholes meeting the old-fashioned way as there are meeting in the new hookup culture. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I think it's just that as a creative person, in all the different things that I've done or ways that I've found… — 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