Quotes from Madonna Ciccone

I like to be a team player. All the projects I do are collaborations. And I want to solicit the opinions and help of other people. I'm not interested in being the one in charge.

People want to hear the dirt. But this is not really anything I want to talk about.

I don't believe there's a certain age where you can't say and feel and be who you want to be.

I am because we are. We all bleed the same color. We all want to love and be loved.

I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.

People like it when others are gossiping. When you hear a story about someone's demise or some big faux-pas they made, everyone wants to tune into it, because it's nice to know that someone else made a mistake. It makes you feel elevated for a moment.

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.

Being famous has changed a lot, because now there's so many outlets, between magazines, TV shows, and the Internet, for people to stalk and follow you. We created the monster.

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.

You only see what your eyes want to see. How can life be what you want it to be?

I don't care anymore if people dress like me, now I want them to think like me.

I've been popular and unpopular successful and unsuccessful loved and loathed and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore I feel free to take whatever risks I want.

Ever since my daughter was born I feel the fleetingness of time. And I don't want to waste it on getting the perfect lip color.

I think most children who are adopted ultimately want to meet their biological parents and often do. I think that is an important journey for children who are adopted to go on.

Make no mistake, Madonna is always in control of the image she wants you to see.

Love´s nothing else than a war in which both are the winners.

I really saw myself as the quintessential Cinderella. I think that's when I really thought about how I wanted to do something else and get away from all that.

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.

I like to think I'm a role model for women. But I also don't like to just limit it to women. I like to think I'm a role model for human beings in general.

I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful.

Britney Spears became my talisman. I became obsessed with wearing Britney T-shirts. I felt it would bring me luck. And it did.

Marriage? I don't know what I really think about marriage. I'm a bit confused on that issue.

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

I'm not particularly fond of kissing strange men-contrary to popular belief.