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Yep. We were a unit.

Because he always wanted to take naps!

Brilliant. Or the scene where Marlon Brando is talking to his dead wife in the casket in BLAINE: “You pig fucker.” Supposedly he was sick of acting during that scene, so he started grunting like a pig in his trailer, just to fuck around.

MADONNA: I like Banksy. I’m sure that, to a certain extent, she is, but actually, her lack of presence would be the driving force.BLAINE: She passed away when you were very young. [BLAINE: Do you ever take a no?

Like, last time I went on tour, I had to learn how to slackline, so that was a nightmare, because you keep falling off and you have to keep getting back on, falling off, learning how to balance. It depends on what’s going on in my life at that moment. Thinking is the hardest thing. I can’t read your illegible handwriting.BLAINE: This is a good one. I don’t know if I could do that right now with small children.BLAINE: Like what the monks do. I like to see the words written; it inspires me.

[BLAINE: Do you ever take a no?

Like a friend said when I was young, “You know, what Michael Jackson does is easy.” We were, like, 10. BLAINE: I just heard the song “Devil Prays” [from Madonna’s forthcoming album], and it’s fucking amazing.

I like the idea of going to one of those retreats where you don’t speak—like, silence for five days. It is the illusion.BLAINE: So when you write that type of song, do you just sit there by yourself? And who is The Beast? I rode a wave.BLAINE: That must be tricky for you, because it’s hard to fail. MADONNA: I’m not saying I’m great at failing, but if you’re an artist and you’re into the learning process, you accept that you’re going to suck at things. MADONNA: The music of Chopin. You stay inspired that way. But … I want you to close your eyes.

I can’t think of a specific scene, but anything that Al Pacino does in BLAINE: Or John Cazale sitting in the chair and yelling at …MADONNA: Well, no, who’s doing the interview, me or you? A Shabbat song? Like, I suck as a cook. Just out of curiosity.

And her evolutionary mutability—the quicksilver ability to grow and change and live spectacular multiple lives in and beyond the public eye—has given each viewer and each listener their own favorite Madonna.

I was blown away by that, that he worked when he felt moved. I went to lots of funerals … But you digress. You stay inspired that way. So this is visual deprivation as well. I see Wong Kar-wai’s film BLAINE: Are there any scenes where the actor is doing a monologue …MADONNA: Oh, acting!

I was blown away by that, that he worked when he felt moved. I could never work in a recording studio where you have this lovely view and a beach and the waves are crashing. (Yes, yes. I think I would really enjoy it, stillness and quiet, because I feel like people are always talking to me, BLAINE: What do you think your brain would fill up with?BLAINE: Ideas.

It was so important for Keith to be able to draw on subways and walls.

And that coupled with the visual imagery that I did with [fashion photographer] Steven Klein, this sort of… collapsed red queen persona – I don’t know if you remember that?

MADONNA IS TIRED AND HUNGRY.

I surfed because my son kept bugging me.

Ha! I don’t want to answer any questions. I remember hearing them talk about those things.

Letting things go.

Bob Marley was a leader, for instance.

And you can create beauty when you’re in that sort of deprived environment, which is a re-creation of your formative years.

[BLAINE: You’re going to be here for one full day.

And it was very much like that, and then she became a huge star.