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Madonna Main Page Detailed Biography&Facts Discography, Albums Filmography, Movies Quotes Trivia Awards&Nominations Madonna Images, Pictures, Photos: Madonna Picture Gallery Next: Bob Marley Previous: Lynyrd Skynyrd The Grateful Dead Jimi Hendrix Billie Holiday Michael Jackson Janis Joplin Led Zeppelin Great Music Bands Great Music Stars of Today	Quotations by Madonna "Children always understand. They have open minds. They have built-in shit detectors." [About her famous appearance in 1994 on _"Late Show with David Letterman" (1993)_] "That was a time in my life when I was extremely angry. The press was constantly beating up on me, and I felt like I was a victim. So I lashed out at people and that Letterman was one of them. I am not particularly proud of it." "I see her as my little sister. She asks me for career advice. For the most part, I try to make her understand this isn't real life and she can't take everything people say seriously. I can understand some of the stuff she's going through. I help her with that." - on her relationship with Britney Spears. "A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want." (From her book "Sex") "Without the heart, there can be no understanding between the hand and the mind." "I feel just as hungry today as I did the day I left home." (To David Letterman) "Listen, all you do is talk about my sex life on your show, so now you don't want to talk about my sex life when I'm on your show?!" "I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art." "I'm like a cockroach - you just can't get rid of me!" "Fame can be very disruptive. It can be like a drug. It gives you the feeling that you're happy, it gives you the feeling of self-importance, it gives you the feeling of fullfilment... but it can distract you from what is really important." "I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want... if that makes me a bitch - okay!" "There is nothing rebellious about today's sounds, and music needs to be rebellious!" "A lot of people thought that I was a black artist before they saw my videos, because a lot of my music is more R&B oriented, and I think that I'm a white artist doing R&B music, getting played on pop stations. And I think that the kind of records I make are really changing peoples ideas of splitting up and categorizing artists and I think that's opening ways for Black and white artists as well." (August 1984) "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. (May 1984) "I like them. I know I am not supposed to. Every time someone says something bad about them, I say, 'Hey, wait a minute, I was a Spice Girl once!'" - on the Spice Girls. "Even if I feel like shit they still love me!" "You have to be patient... I'm not!" "I hate people who hate women. Actually I hate people who hate!" "I do think that the birth of my daughter was sort of a rebirth for me. It made me look at life in a completely new way. And that made me appreciate life in a way I don't think I ever had before." "I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is." "When I was growing up I was religious in a passionate adolescent way. Jesus Christ was like a movie star, my favorite idol of all." "I feel really protective of her. Don't even ask me why. there's something about her. Even though she's terribly successful, for some reason I think of her as an underdog." - on Britney Spears "My ambition may be American, and I may have married a Brit, but my heart belongs to France." (on winning a French NRJ Career Award, January 2004) "I don't want people to dress like me anymore. Now, I want them to think like me. Dress like Britney Spears and think like me, and everything will be fine". "I've learned from studying Kabbalah that if your happiness is based on people approving of everything you do, you're doomed to fail... Kabbalah helped me stand up and take responsibility for everything to do with me." "So then I'm playing drums and were getting gigs in certain downtown clubs like CBGB and the Mud Club, and Max's Kansas City. And I'm starting to write music for the band too, like some songs but they already had two singers in the band, so they would never let me get up and sing a song because what's the point? One day I finally convinced them. I'll just play guitar and sing one song. Please, please, please. And they finally said OK. So then I got up to sing one song and the other guy went back to play the drums. And like I got a standing ovation." (December 1985) "Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons." (June 1989) "I can be arrogant sometimes, but I never mean it intentionally. I can be really snotty to people but that's not anything new really. I always acted like a star long before I was one. If people don't see my sense of humor then I come off as being expensive, but I always endear myself to people when I find their weaknesses and they acknowledge it. It's the people who try to hide everything and try to make you think they're so cool that I can't stand." "I skip the huge breakfast. Once you eat it, I don't know how you can get up and move around...I go out and shoot some pheasants." "When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it." "Can I just say that I find it really irritating that everyone beats up on Britney Spears? I want to do nothing but support her and praise her and wish her the best. I mean, she's 18 years old! It's just shocking. I was so gawky and geeky and awkward and unsure of myself." - Elle, February 2001 "I live for meeting with men in suits. I love them because I know they had a really boring week and I walk in there with my orange velvet leggings and drop popcorn in my cleavage and then fish it out and eat it. I like that. I know I'm entertaining them, and I know that they know." "Videos might have a limited audience in one sense. But on the other hand you could be reaching a lot of people that would never be able to come see you live. So I think they're definitely an advantage. Kids today worship the television, so I think it's a great way to reach them. When you perform on stage you're acting. That's a performance. If someone sticks a camera on you what's the difference?" (August 1984) "I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this." "I would like to ultimately achieve. I already told Dick Clark once on 'American Bandstand'. So I repeat it again and annoy everyone who was annoyed before when I said it. I want to conquer the world." (September 1984) "Not only do we suffer from racism and sexism, but we also suffer from ageism. Once you reach a certain age you're not allowed to be adventurous, you're not allowed to be sexual, I mean is there a rule? Are you supposed to just die when you're 40?" "People who have nothing better to do than talk about my hair color have no lives." "Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep." "I'm a gay man trapped in a woman's body!"