I can understand that the whole world is interested in my wife Madonna. That's even why I married her.

A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx.

Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.

People wanted me to be like the Madonna, the white nun, you know, and that's not me. But I'm no villain.

My dad turned me onto Led Zeppelin, the Stones, and the Who, but Madonna and pop music came from my mom.

MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna.

It worried me when Britney snogged Madonna. It looked a bit fake. It screamed 'We're in this for the money.

Madonna working with Justin Timberlake is supposed be cool but I don't think there's anything cool about it.

The celebrity body I most admire is Madonna's. She has the most incredible physique - and the woman's in her 50s!

I almost get quite scared talking about it. It's happened, obviously. I did meet Madonna and I did work with her.

All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.

I'm massively inspired by 'True Blue'-era Madonna, but she is absolutely confident and in control of the situation.

Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing.

As a kid, I watched every Madonna documentary and tour. I was obsessed with her - and with any pop star of the '80s.

I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.

Many artists in Mexico fight to be the Latina Madonna. I don't want that! Never! Maybe she's the American Gloria Trevi!

As for Madonna, I always used to laugh at her running. And now I run! I get why she always ran. I wish I'd run when she did.

Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?

So the Madonna thing, I wrote a song with Diplo, she liked it, tweaked it and then made it her own and it became 'Hold Tight.'

I have a gut instinctive feeling that I will be as massive as Madonna, as massive as Michael Jackson... Whitney Houston, sure.

I came around at a time when myself, Michael Jackson, Prince, Madonna and George Michael, we were considered kind of dangerous.

Madonna is untouchable. She is absolutely lovely. On a personal level, she's everything you would expect. She's so down to earth.

I think I would love to have dinner with Gandhi; Jesus Christ; Mother Theresa; Ingrid Newkirk, the president of PETA; and Madonna.

When I was in N.Y. bartending, I was in a billion music videos. I was in Madonna, George Michael, Salt-n-Pepa - it goes on and on.

Nobody under the sun was like Madonna. She was positive and clear and wholly dedicated to achieving everything that she's achieved.

I felt connected with Madonna from a very young age. I think I share a lot of qualities from her personality. I really respect her.

I felt pressure to follow in Madonna's footsteps, and I didn't want to base my career on sex. So I began to change how I saw myself.

Madonna influenced me a lot. She's all about really being yourself and not giving a care in the world, and I really take after that.

One of the things that I've learned working with Madonna is you just move forward. It's really rare that she ever brings up the past.

One thing about me is that I'm very much like the Black Madonna. I love to reinvent myself and that's because I am a very free person.

The mainstream media tend to lump everything together. To them, there's no difference between Madonna, the Rolling Stones, or whatever.

Madonna is a feminist and has been doing more for the cause than all the grumpy feminists, who are giving nothing back by being grumpy.

Since Madonna is positioned as always 'cooler than thou,' we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.

A part of 'Happy New Year' is inspired by western pop culture, the pop music videos of Michael Jackson, Madonna and Duran Duran in the '80s.

If I ever complain about yachting around the Mediterranean with Madonna, who I just idolized as a child, I should be slapped across the face.

I have never kissed a woman, but Madonna in all her glory with coney bras and burgundy black 'Vogue' lips makes me rethink my heterosexuality.

Madonna had to break through; I knew she was going to make it big, because I could see how ambitious she was, in a very genuine and sweet way.

If somebody wants to get inside my brain and figure out what I'm chasing, what I'm after think Richard Branson, think Madonna, think Lady Gaga.

Like David Bowie, Madonna visualizes music so that her best work seems equally designed with the stage or screen in mind - not just the jukebox.

I have a Madonna portrait done in the style of a Russian icon. My mother, the chef Lidia Bastianich, and I bought it together. It reminds me of her.

I find it hard to believe when people tell me I inspired them in any kind of way because I think to myself, 'well, why?' It's just me - not Madonna.

I listen to terrible music when exercising. I mean, like, early Madonna, Boney M, the Fratellis, Shakira... I can't claim interesting musical taste.

I would switch roles with Madonna for a day. Or if Audrey Hepburn was still alive, Audrey Hepburn. I love Audrey Hepburn. She's one of my idols, also.

I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.

I spent my summers in a war zone because my parents were afraid that if we didn't go back to Palestine every single summer, we'd grow up to be Madonna.

People like Prince or Madonna, they're kind of superhuman. You can't imagine them burning their toast, and there's something really exciting about that.

There are certain people who have become better artists, but they're brilliant at marketing. I think someone who's been phenomenal like that is Madonna.

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.

I never had a rivalry with Madonna. You don't knock another sister, ever. There's room for everybody on this planet; you don't have to be like anyone else.

I went from the most underground band in the world to signing with Madonna's producer and a record label that is extremely mainstream - it was interesting.

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