It’s one of the craziest feelings to be on stage and know that you were sitting on your bedroom floor when that song came to be and now there’s an arena full of people singing it.
I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.
We all dream about love, want to be in love, and have been hurt by love.
But then you make eye contact with someone across the room and it clicks and you’re right there in love again.
Happiness isn’t a constant. You get fleeting glimpses. You have to fight for those moments, but they make it all worth it.
Feel good about being someone who loves selflessly. I think someday you’ll find someone who loves you the exact same way.
It’s the most maddening, beautiful, magical, horrible, painful, wonderful joyous thing in the world, love.
Unique and different is the next generation of beautiful.
Believe in everything you do. Believe in your mistakes and grow from them.
No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.
One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.
When you’re singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It’s happening.
I’ve always just wished that maybe someday people would care about the words that I wrote.
I don’t know if you know who you are, until you lose who you are.
My fans don’t feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I’m going through now, they’ll hear about it on a record someday. They’ll hear the real story. There’s a little bit of lag time. It’s not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it’s much more accurate.
Being a powerful woman who also exhibits great warmth is an incredible feat because people think that to be powerful you have to be cold, and you don’t.
I don’t think it’s the most important thing in life to fit it. I think it’s the most important thing in life to dance to the beat of your own drum and to look like you’re having more fun than the people who look cool like they fit in.
If you fall in love based on zero hours spent with me? That’s maybe something to be aware of. That will fade fast. You can’t be in love with a google search.
When I meet my fans, it’s not like meeting a stranger. It’s like saying hello to someone that I already know.
One element of Madonna’s career that really takes center stage is how many times she’s reinvented herself. It’s easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It’s inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.