I don't like rooms you never use or that are wasted space but I also like a sparseness and a cleanness.
I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.
With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real ...
When I first moved to New York, I wanted to be a dancer. I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence. I never tapped into nightlife; all I knew was dancers. We went to bed early and got up early and went to free concerts at th...
People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.
I wouldn't live in Chicago cause it's too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there.
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.
My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.
Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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 tho...
I was more of a dancing kid than a singing kid. I mean, I sang in school choirs and I sang in school musicals, but I was much more interested in dancing than singing.
When you're 25, it's a little bit easier to be daring, especially if you are a pop star, because eccentric behavior is expected from you.
I was named after my mother. And I guess when I started making records, Madonna Ciccone seemed too long and complicated, and I just got stuck with Madonna.
Where you record is very important. It can't be too nice, it can't be too expensive, it can't have a view to an ocean or a field.
There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.
People like it when others are gossiping. When you hear a story about someone's demise or some big faux-pas they made, everyone wants to tune into it, because it's nice to know that someone else made a mistake. It makes you feel elevated for a moment...
Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.
I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.
I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
