麦当娜·路易丝·西科尼是美国歌手、词曲作者和演员。她被称为“流行天后”，被认为是流行文化中最有影响力的人物之一。麦当娜以她在音乐制作、歌曲创作和视觉呈现方面的不断创新和多才多艺而闻名。
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.
我们家每个人都学过乐器。我父亲对此非常重视。不知怎的，我只上了一两年的钢琴课，我说服父亲让我上舞蹈课。
We like to put people on a pedestal, give them one character trait, and if they step outside of that shrinelike area that we blocked out for them, then we will punish them.
我们喜欢把人放在神龛上，给他们一个性格特征，如果他们走出我们为他们封锁的神龛般的区域，那么我们会惩罚他们。
My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.
我的身体变化——比如改变头发——通常反映了当时激励我的是什么。
Imagine if someone like John Lennon or Bob Marley, Sid Vicious, Picasso, whomever, were doing their work, and some corporation, some CEO, some branding entity was saying to you, 'Well, you can do that, but you've got to remove this aspect of your work.' There would no longer be that purity anymore.
想象一下，如果像约翰·列侬或鲍勃·马利、希德·维西、毕加索这样的人在做他们的工作，而某个公司、某个首席执行官、某个品牌实体对你说，‘好吧，你可以这样做，但你必须去掉你工作的这一方面。’那就不再有那种纯洁了。
I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
我认为每个人都应该至少结婚一次，这样你就会明白这是一个多么愚蠢、过时的制度。
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.
有时候我真不敢相信自己和现在一样老。但我的身体感觉比10年前好多了。我不认为，天哪，我错过了什么。
I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.
我总是在寻找新的东西：新的灵感，新的哲学，新的看待事物的方式，新的才能。
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.
我鼓励其他人，不管他们是不是专业人士，用他们的创造力来表达自己，展开对话，开始派对，真的。