Zitat des Tages von Madonna Ciccone:
Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.
In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.
I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy' or 'What do you think of this?'
I didn't have many friends; I might not have had any friends. But it all turned out good in the end, because when you aren't popular and you don't have a social life, it gives you more time to focus on your future.
People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.
If I can't be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don't really see the point of being on this planet.
I always thought I should be treated like a star.
Of course, my interests and my focus change and become more diverse, more worldly. At the same time, I am interested in the simple basics, which is I love to dance and I love to make people dance.
A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that.
On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.
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.
I wouldn't live in Chicago cause it's too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there.
Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
I don't like rooms you never use or that are wasted space but I also like a sparseness and a cleanness.
If any of you have seen my shows, you know that I don't skimp on them and the same is true for the gym. We spend what it takes to make a globally first-class gym.
I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.
I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.
There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.
I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person.
If I was a girl again, I would like to be like my fans, I would like to be like Madonna.
I've always been acutely aware of differences and the way you are supposed to act if you want to be popular.
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
I tend to write during the day so I can see my children at night. But if my kids aren't with me and I have a chunk of time when I'm a single woman living in my house for a miraculous week, I will get to write at different hours.
I've always danced and exercised. I can't imagine not doing it. I'll be Martha Graham in my 90s doing contractions on the floor.
I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don't agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do something, he didn't do it either.
I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.
I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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.
Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.
I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.
I'm guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night.
I went to the University of Michigan for one year, and fortunately they had a foreign-film cinema, and I discovered it, and I thought I died and went to heaven.
Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.
