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Quotes
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I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying
something, I say it.
Children
always understand. They have open minds. They have built-in shit
detectors.
I
think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see
what a silly, outdated institution it is.
A
lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't
get what they want.
Everyone
probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an
insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.
I
always thought I should be treated like a star.
I
stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going
after your dreams.
I
suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being... Sometimes
I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my
hairstyle, and I cringe.
I'm
not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me
drugs.
I'm
tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a
bitch, okay.
If
I was a girl again, I would like to be like my fans, I would like to be
like Madonna.
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.
Poor
is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
Prince
Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around
willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.
There
are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better
physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing
something.
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?!
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.
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
feel just as hungry today as I did the day I left home.
Better
to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.
I
am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
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.
I'm
like a cockroach - you just can't get rid of me!
People
who have nothing better to do than talk about my hair color have no
lives.
I'm
a gay man trapped in a woman's body!
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?
Without
the heart, there can be no understanding between the hand and the mind.
I'm
tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want... if that makes me a
bitch - okay!
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.
There
is nothing rebellious about today's sounds, and music needs to be
rebellious!
My
ambition may be American, and I may have married a Brit, but my heart
belongs to France.
I
wouldn't live here cause it's too conservative, aside for the fact that
Oprah Winfrey lives here.
I
know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest
me, I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's buttons.
I
have two beautiful children and a brilliant, gorgeous husband. I have my
work and my faith...If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you
how much I don't care.
I
think that Kabbahlah is very punk rock.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
I
befriended one DJ in particular and he worked at a club called
Danceteria, which was one of my favorite clubs. And we talked a lot
about music. I knew a lot about singers, and I knew a lot about
different groups and stuff like that. And he said: `How come you know so
much about this.' And I said: `I'm really interested in music.' And he
said: `Well, in what way?' And I said: `I'm a singer'. He said: `No
kidding'. And I said: `Yeah, and I just happen to have this tape right
here'. I mean I was carrying this tape with me everywhere, at every
club, waiting for the moment to pop it on somebody. So I said: `Would
you play it?'. And he said `Well I can't play it in the middle of the
night. I haven't heard it. What if it's terrible? What if everyone stops
dancing?' And I said `Alright well you listen to it, take it home with
you tonight, and listen to it. And I'll come back here tomorrow, and if
you like it then you play it again. So that was a Friday night, so he
went home. On Saturday night I met him again, and I came back before the
club opened and he said he really loved it. So he played it. He played
two songs. One of them was `Everybody'.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
TV
is trash. I was raised without it, I didn't miss anything. TV is poison.
No-one even talks about it around here. We don't have magazines or
newspapers in the house either.
You
can't go to London and not start drinking Guinness. And I have been
known to eat fried fish and French fries. When in Rome - right?
I
was just frigging devastated, it was a real sad day. I don't get how
people can have all these facts and still turn away from them. 9/11 was
too ambiguous. You couldn't prove how the government was somehow in on
the deal. You could say, 'Oh that's just Michael Moore'. New Orleans was
undeniable irresponsibility.
If
you take everything I do at face value, you're going to be horrified. Or
intimidated. Or insulted. Or bored.
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