468 Quotes by Madonna

Who is my role model and how long can I keep this going? I just move around and do different things and come back to music, try making films and come back to music, write children’s books and come back to music.

The critics have been writing me off for 20 years. That’s nothing new. As far as I know I still have plenty of fans and sell lots of records. Do I care what critics say about me? No, and I don’t read reviews.

Being loved keeps you young.

I have great respect for Sean Penn. It’s like most relationships that fail. It’s not one thing, it’s many thing that go on over a period of time.

People don’t know what Kabbalah is, and so they jump to conclusions. For me, studying Kabbalah is studying – is just – is asking questions. And I encourage all of my children to be that way, and I think people don’t understand that. And so they make assumptions and they judge.

Everyone who knows me thinks I’m a bit of a work Nazi.

A fire lit under my ass? Yeah, that’s true. No time to waste.

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.

And then, going to high school, I saw how popular girls had to behave to get the boys. I knew I couldn’t fit into that. So I decided to do the opposite. I refused to wear makeup, to have a hairstyle. I refused to shave. I had hairy armpits.