606 Quotes by Madonna Ciccone

A lot of people are just really confused by me; they don’t know what to think of me, so they try to compartmentalize me or diminish me. Maybe they just feel unsafe. But any time you have an overtly emotional or irrational, negative reaction to something, you’re fearing something that it’s bringing up in you.

I loved nuns when I was growing up. I thought they were beautiful. For several years I wanted to be a nun. I saw them as really pure, disciplined, above average people. They had these serene faces. Nuns are sexy.

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.

Just because I'm presented life in a certain way doesn't mean I do all these things. It's just something I choose to express.

If you want to change the world, change yourself.

When I first moved to New York I wanted to be a dancer, I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence.

I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.

I love horses. I think I may have been one of Henry VIII’s knights in another life, riding through a great forest.

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.