I’ve pretty much enjoyed most of Madonna’s music since my schooldays. But this was probably the last thing I expected to hear from her… esp after songs like Material Girl. Looks like she’s finally managed to become really succesful 😀

source: MADONNA IN STAGE

Still, one of the world’s richest, most celebrated women declaring that riches and fame and power and “stuff” are unimportant? Some will scoff, of course. But that’s OK, Madonna says – she knows of what she speaks.

Madonna: Who better to say those things don’t matter than somebody who’s experienced them? [People may say], “How can you say they don’t matter? How can you say that money won’t bring you happiness if you don’t have a lot of money? How can you say that fame and fortune are not a guarantee for happiness and joy and fulfillment in your life?” You have to have that experience to know. ‘Cause you have all those things, I’ve had all those things, and I’ve had nothing but chaos around me. So I’m just sharing what I know with the world. ‘Cause I do think that we’ve become completely consumed with being rich and famous, our society has. And I just want to tell people, take it from me, I have all those things and none of them ever brought me one minute of happiness.

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[Kabbalah is] several things. One is that we are all connected. That you and a person that lives on the other side of the world is an extension of me. And that feeling things like envy or jealousy or hostility or any of the negative things that we all feel for each other as human beings is like hating yourself. And that conscience is everything and that the power of your thoughts and the power of your words determine your environment, the things that you draw to you. When I say in “American Life,” “I’m not a Christian and I’m not a Jew,” it’s the idea that I don’t want to be identified with any sort of religious thought, because to say that I’m black or I’m white or I’m Catholic or I’m Jewish is to think in a fragmented way. And because we think in fragmented ways, we have wars, we don’t see each other as extensions of ourselves, as humanity. So that’s the biggest concept I think.

Madonna: … Or I’m a New Yorker, I’m an American, I’m a this, I’m a that. You stay over in your box, and I’ll stay over in mine. It’s what keeps us all in this fragmented way and that’s why we’re all enemies and that’s why nobody is talking to each other, that’s why there’s so much suffering.

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Norris: And you’re not going to, say, five years from now, be refuting what you said today about life and what is important?

Madonna: I’m not going to tell you any of those things. I can’t predict that. I can only tell you that this is where I’m at right now. I think this is the beginning of an incredible journey.

As if that wasn’t enough, check out the lyrics of one of her latest songs…

American Life

Do I have to change my name
Will it get me far
Should I lose some weight
Am I gonna be a star

I got a lawyer and a manager, an agent and a chef
Three nannies, an assistant and a driver and a jet
A trainer and a butler and a bodyguard or five
A gardener and a stylist, do you think I’m satisfied
I’d like to express my extreme point of view
I’m not a Christian and I’m not a Jew
I’m just livin’ out the American dream
And I just realized that nothin’ is what it seems

edited from: American Life