Madonna Ciccone
It takes more strength to cry, admit defeat. I have truth on my side, you only have deceit.Collection: Inspirational
We are living in a material world and I'm a material girl.Collection: Girl
I made a vow that I would never need another person ever. Turned my heart into a cage, a victim of a kind of rage.Collection: Heart
Sex is the most fun you can have without smiling.Collection: Sex
Music makes the people come together.Collection: People
All you need is your own imagination. So use it that's what it's for.Collection: Imagination
I shouldn't have stayed so long away. Every time I come here, I get so supercharged with energy. I truly believe that Israel is the energy centre of the world. And I also believe that if we can all live together in harmony in this place, then we can live in peace all over the world.Collection: Believe
Cease Fire ! Inshallah!!! Baruch Hashem!! Praise the Lord! #ceasefireforever #peaceinthemiddleeast #livingforloveCollection: Fire
'Jesus' message was to love your neighbour as yourself, and there are people in need. I hope that people got that message.Collection: Jesus
There's always elements of danger in New York but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.Collection: New York
Acknowledge World Aids Day! Do what you can to help save lives! #livingforloveCollection: Aids Day
Hey you! Don't be silly! Put a rubber on your willie!Collection: Silly
Raising kids makes most people, including me, grow up at least a little.Collection: Relationship
I'm angry. Yes, I am outraged. Yes, I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House.Collection: House
I actually always try to have a moment in my show where I can just lay down on stage and talk to people for a little while.Collection: People
I don't doubt love for a second. I'm living for love. Listen to my songs!Collection: Song
Nowadays New-York is not the exciting place it used to be. It still has great energy; I still put my finger in the socket. But it doesn't feel alive, cracking with that synergy between the art world and music world and fashion world that was happening in the 80s. A lot of people died.Collection: Fashion
Before doing any interviews I like to know who I'm meeting with and get a bit of an idea of their sensibilities.Collection: Ideas
I think there probably was a time when I was less provocative. That's when I was married.Collection: Thinking
In America it is not considered to be mentally ill when a woman advances on her prey in a discotheque setting with hardy cocktails present.Collection: America
I don't affiliate myself with any specific religious group. I connect to different ritualistic aspects of different belief systems, and I see the connecting thread between all religious beliefs.Collection: Religious
My father was very strict with me, and I kept seeing a disparity between their freedom and my lack of it, or how I had all the responsibilities and they had none. And the Catholic Church, all of the rules, and why did I have to wear a dress when they could wear pants? I would say to my dad: 'Will Jesus love me less if I wear pants? Am I going to hell?'Collection: Jesus
There are certain mystical belief systems that believe that taking pictures takes an aspect of the soul, but beyond that it's just the idea that once you're captured in a photograph, then a million presumptions are made of you, and you are forever frozen in that one moment, and you are perceived to be the embodiment of that moment, and that, of course, is an illusion.Collection: Believe
I like the idea of going to one of those retreats where you don't speak - like, silence for five days.Collection: Ideas
I'm liking the idea more and more of just standing up with a microphone and talking.Collection: Talking
Thinking isn't something you think about. It comes naturally. Thinking involves many things. It involves being an observer. It involves analyzing things, taking in what's around you in the world and finding how to make it inspire your work or turn it into a lesson to teach your children; it's paying attention to details. That's what thinking is: processing.Collection: Children
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.Collection: Hiding Something
My son youngest son David's favorite song - he plays guitar - and he likes "Devil Pray." That's his favorite.Collection: Song
[George Michael] is a great songwriter and he makes very classy videos, like me.Collection: Video
I was working with Toby Gad, who spent a lot of time in India. There's a sitar [in "Body Shop"] and the song has a very Indian flavor to it. I liked the idea of the body of a car as a kind of sexual metaphor - What you do to a car, what you do in a car - drive. So, lots of innuendos, and lots of fun.Collection: Song
When I first came up, the whole AIDS epidemic was starting, and the gay community that I experienced from the beginning of my career was mostly - and overwhelmingly - concerned with staying alive. And, also, I felt really aware of the preciousness of life and time. The gay community and people who were HIV-positive were treated so badly, and I was very disturbed by things. But I also saw a lot of love and connection in the gay community at that time.Collection: Gay
I like to make people think.Collection: Thinking
I've studied Kabbalah, as you know, for many years, so there are a lot of things I do that one would associate with practising Judaism. I hear the Torah every Saturday. I observe Shabbat. I say certain prayers. My son was bar mitzvahed. So this appears like I'm Jewish, but these rituals are connected to what I describe as the Tree of Life consciousness and have more to do with the idea of being an Israelite, not Jewish.Collection: Prayer
I like that you have four minutes to zero in on something and evoke a specific feeling and take people on some sort of journey.Collection: Zero
I think everybody has a bisexual nature. That's my theory. I could be wrong.Collection: Bisexual
That's what I mean about Catholicism - your sexual life is supposed to be dead if you're a good Catholic. That's wrong. It's human nature to be sexual, so why would God want you to deny your human nature?Collection: Mean
My idea of the perfect man would be someone intelligent and clever enough, but also kind and compassionate enough to stand up to me - to stand up to me with compassion.Collection: Clever