606 Quotes by Madonna Ciccone

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

I'm attracted to artists like Frida Kahlo, because her work was her life, her questions, her outrage, her suffering, her pain. Everything is in her work.

I am a tip-top starlet. That is my job that I am paid to do.

And I feel faster than the speeding light.

Being loved keeps you young.

Popularity comes and goes. You need to know who you are, what you stand for, and why you're here.

When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that's how I really got into the music business. But I didn't like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there.

There is a very modest side to me too. How far away from me is the image? It's about 20 steps away.

I'm so used to people slagging me off. Since the beginning of my career I've been told I have no talent, I can't sing and I'm a one-hit wonder.