Quotes from Madonna Ciccone

Never forget to dream.

I'm attracted to men who are going to stand up to me.

Effeminate men intrigue me more than anything in the world. I see them as my alter egos. I feel very drawn to them. I think like a guy, but I'm feminine. So I relate to feminine men.

Straight men need to be emasculated.... Every straight guy should have a man's tongue in his mouth at least once.

Why did God create men? Because vibrators can't mow the lawn.

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.

I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

Powerful women are a threat in any society which is why I am such a target.

I believe women should own their sexuality and sexual expression.

When you're 25, it's a little bit easier to be daring, especially if you are a pop star, because eccentric behavior is expected from you.

I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.

I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.

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 want the good life, but I don't want an easy ride. What I want is to work for it, feel the blood and sweat on my fingertips.

Honestly, I don't read newspapers, magazines, whatever. They're just not part of my lexicon. I don't want to be manipulated, or manipulated about other people's work.

Fame is a by-product. It's not a goal. What matters is loving your work and loving what you do

Where you record is very important. It can't be too nice, it can't be too expensive, it can't have a view to an ocean or a field.

One of the things that helps me tell a story through music is to create a character. I have to have a muse, whether it's Frida Kahlo, Martha Graham, Marlene Dietrich, or Pippi Longstocking.

I'm opening gyms around the world to encourage people to get in shape and feel good about themselves; bringing art through dance to gyms to make my gyms different from other people's.

I was a buffoon and an idiot until the age of forty

I don't like guys my age because they are normally either married or divorced and grumpy, fat and balding.

Unbelievable, George Michael has died at the age of 53. RIP.This dreadful year goes on and on.So sad, a real talent.