Madonna recently opened up about faith and spirituality, specifically how she uses prayer as a tool to express gratitude to God. In
a candid new interview, the 56-year-old iconic singer, who practices
Kabbalah, revealed her obsession with death and also spoke about prayer
playing a significant role in her life.
“The ritual of prayer
isn’t a religious thing as much as it is having a ritualistic moment to
acknowledge things and not take things for granted,” she said.
“For instance: the fact that you wake up and there’s air in your lungs;
the fact that you have a job to do; the fact that you have friends; the
fact that you have your health. You’re going to do something that’s
going to bring you joy. We take these things for granted. And, you know,
I think it’s important to call angels to you to protect you.”
The
mother of four lost her mother, Madonna Louise Ciccone, at age 5. She
considers her to be among what she believes to be her guardian angels.
“I
became very obsessed with death, and the idea that you never know when
death will arrive, so one has to do as much as possible all the time to
get the most out of life,” she said. “And death was a big part of my
life growing up. I went to lots of funerals.”
Madonna is currently
gearing up for the release of her forthcoming album, two years after
she dropped her platinum-selling album “MDNA.”
In one particular song entitled “Devil Prays,” she sings about drug use being somewhat of a spiritual yet illusory experience.
“It’s
about how people take drugs to connect to God or to a higher level of
consciousness,” she said. “I keep saying ‘Plugging into the
matrix.’ If you get high, you can do that, which is why a lot of people
drop acid or do drugs, because they want to get closer to God.”
Madonna also acknowledged her own dabbling into drugs in the past and said she has “tried everything once.”
”
… That’s the illusion of drugs, because they give you the illusion of
getting closer to God, but ultimately they kill you,” she said. “They
destroy you. I mean, I tried everything once, but as soon as I was high,
I spent my time drinking tons of water to get it out of my system. As
soon as I was high, I was obsessed with flushing it out of me. I was
like, ‘Okay, I’m done now.'”
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