Madonna Ciccone Quotes

With music, you're really showing someone a piece of your soul. You're saying, 'This is mine. I wrote this, I made this, I'm performing this. This is how I'm presenting it to you.' There's something really scary about that, but there's also something next-worldly about it, too.

It is hard for me to be vulnerable, because I never learned how to do that. I was never vulnerable in a safe way.

With my fan base, I'm just vulnerable. I'm very transparent and vulnerable.

It's only when I'm on stage that I really come to terms with the fact that other people are hearing my most inner, darkest thoughts.

I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.

I think sexy is vulnerability, and there's no way you can act vulnerable. It just has to be there.

Songwriting is the most terrifying thing to me, because you are really laying your heart out there.

I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion.

Some people are uncomfortable saying what they feel.

Singing, to me, just feels really vulnerable.

It's the most personal thing that I do is sing. Because I can't tell a lie. I want them to know exactly what I'm feeling.

I'm not really that comfortable, to be honest, singing about my darkest moments.

I can be more real and more vulnerable when I sing.

For people who have been following me for a long time, I really hope that they can get to know me a little better, maybe get to know the softer, squishy, emotional side of me, because I usually put up a weird side, so it'll be cool to be able to open up in that way to them.

I think it's sort of rare in TV shows or movies to see people being vulnerable. That's sort of scary to an audience.

I think early on I avoided singing because it was so personal and I didn't know how to sit in that intimacy. I wrote songs when I was little and I wrote a journal, but I don't think I knew how to let that truth come out yet.

Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you that there is magic in it, and if you show yourself naked for me, I'll be naked for you. It will be our covenant.

You know the real me," she said, stopping to peer up at him. "More than anyone else.

I reveal too much of myself.

There is a difference between vulnerability and telling people everything about yourself. Vulnerability is a feeling. Telling everyone about yourself is just facts and details.

Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

I'm just basically spillin' out my emotions to the world. 'Cause rap is about emotion. And I want you to feel what I'm feelin', 'cause that's what it's all about.

It's very easy for me to play silly, but to reveal something closer to you, that's so much harder.

I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.