#he

As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#artist #feel #heart #i #into

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. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#convinced #dancing #everybody #family #father

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#bind #closely #could #failings #itself

I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#after #aids #been #check #children

I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#felt #grew #high #high school #i

I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#anywhere #become #certainly #down #end

I think the biggest reason I was able to express myself and not be intimidated was by not having a mother. For example, mothers teach you manners. And I absolutely did not learn any of those rules and regulations. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#absolutely #any #biggest #did #example

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#gandhi #i #john #john lennon #king

My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don't agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do something, he didn't do it either. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#brought #did #either #father #his

People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#grew #hear #i #influence #like