Quotes from Madonna Ciccone

You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.

Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.

Who needs the sun, when the rain is so full of life?

I'm obsessed with clowns and what they represent and the idea that clowns are supposed to make you laugh, but inevitably they're hiding something. That's how I look at my life.

Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don't take that job very lightly. Who they are, what they become and what they contribute to the world is very important to me.

If I was a girl again, I would like to be like my fans, I would like to be like Madonna.

I panic every time I put out a record. I think every artist does.

You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it.

I know where beauty lives, I've seen it once, I know the warmth she gives.

Looking at my life, it's very clear to me, I lived so selfishly.

If we took a holiday, took some time to celebrate, just one day out of life, it would be, it would be so nice.

Life's too short to be bitter, I'm too short to be bitter.

Getting lit! Full Disclosure............#dancing #fun #life #livingforlove

My life is not a game that I play to entertain you.

Hand fits giving, so do it, that's what the Gospel said to me. Life fits living, so let your judgments go.

Say goodbye to yesterday...those are the words I'll never say.

Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.

Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne.

Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.

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.

The one thing I don't understand is when people make comments who are clearly not fans of mine. I think, why are you here? Why are you wasting your time? It's fascinating.

Some people are medicating themselves all the time so that they don't have to embrace themselves. If you can't feel, you can't embrace.

In my coming-of-age time, there was no internet, no social networking, nothing. It was just show after show, hoping one day somebody would notice you.

I think all of us make the mistake of thinking we're going to change people when we get together. But we're not. People are who they are. And people change in their own time.