'Work Saved Me,' Madonna Says After Tough Year

By PopEater Staff Posted Oct 14th 2009 10:30AM

Madonna knows a thing or two about gracing the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. After all, she's done it 12 times. In the latest, the pop icon declares her love for "fearless and funny" Lady Gaga, lets slip that she feels "retarded" singing poppy hits like 'Into the Groove' and tries to atone for a decade of fashion, especially that "fluorescent-green sweater combo." On more serious matters, Madonna talks about the "pros and cons" of divorce and that if she hadn't pushed so hard with her work, she "may have thrown myself off a building."

Check out some choice quotes from the RS interview and a few of her best covers over the years, after the jump.

On Divorcing Guy Ritchie Last Year: "What can you say? It was a challenging year. I think work saved me, and I'm very grateful that I had work to do. I may have thrown myself off a building. Life is an adjustment. It's different. My sons aren't with me right now, they're with their father, and I'm not very comfortable with the idea of my children not living together. There are pros and cons, but I feel good now."

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On the Cover of the Rolling Stone

1. November 22, 1984 -- In the wake of her legendary appearance at MTV's inaugural Video Music Awards, Madonna was everywhere.

Rolling Stone

Madonna on the Cover ...

1. November 22, 1984 -- In the wake of her legendary appearance at MTV's inaugural Video Music Awards, Madonna was everywhere.

Rolling Stone

2. May 9, 1985 -- The singer and Rosanna Arquette vamped it up to promote their film, 'Desperately Seeking Susan.'

NEXT: Madonna shows off her new look in June, 1986.

Rolling Stone

On Who She's Listening To: "I think Lady Gaga is great. When [she and daughter Lourdes] saw her, I actually felt a kind of recognition. I thought, "She's got something." There's something quirky about her. She's fearless and funny, and when she spoke to the audience, she sounded intelligent and clever. She's unique."

Can She Sense an Artist's Ambition? "Yes. There's people like Justin Timberlake, who's really good-looking and laid back. He's sort of a Cary Grant. I love him, I love working with him, but I don't recognize myself in him. But I can see myself in Lady Gaga. In the early part of my career, for sure. When I saw her, she didn't have a lot of money for her production, she's got holes in her fishnets, and there's mistakes everywhere. It was kind of a mess, but I can see that she's got that It factor. It's nice to see that at a raw stage."

How Does She Know a Song Will Be a Hit? "I've never been a good judge of what things are going to be huge or not. The songs that I think are the most retarded songs I've written, like "Cherish" and "Sorry," a pretty big hit off my last album, end up being the biggest hits. "Into the Groove" is another song I feel retarded singing, but everybody seems to like it."

Has Anyone Turned Down an Offer to Work With Her? "Sure. Or it's, "I don't have time." I wanted to work with Eminem. I don't think he wanted to work with me. [Smiles] Maybe he's shy."

Which Madonna fashion era makes you cringe? "I think it was the purple lipstick, fluorescent-green sweater combo. So many of those hairstyles. It's OK, it was the Eighties. It was a bad-hairstyle era, let's face it."

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Wednesday 14 October

By sandragroh

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Please..everyone, including you, Madonna - stop using the word "retarded" when describing a foolish or stupid act/move. It isn't funny or
smart / just insulting to a group who can't fight back. Sandy

By Angiebaby

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I suspect pushing so hard in her work is what threw her marriage off a building.

I am the same age as Madonna, and I look at many things from the perspective of middle age. There was a story the other day about a family with 6 little kids, and I thought how that would not work in my life. If I met a man I really loved and wanted to spend time with him, it would be impossible with that many kids. There would be no time for us, and at 50, there wouldn't be enough time to spend together after they are all grown. Decisions like this... putting work before all else and/or taking on so many responsibilities there is not time you, your partner or togetherness has consequences, and it's almost always the marriage or partnership. No thanks.

By whatcra

Why do they have paintings and statues of Madonna in the Vatican but not Rihanna or Beyonce? I think this is racist.

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