A turning point as a song writer

During last night’s Madonna tv special on Swedish tv, a snippet of an interesting interview from 2001 with composer Patrick Leonard was shown among other things. Speaking about the Like A Prayer album he said that” none of the songs took more than more than two or three hours to write”.
Incredible songs such as Like A Prayer, Cherish, Spanish Eyes, Oh Father, Dear Jessie were done in the first five days of writing, Leonard to the interviewer, the same journalist that asked Madonna to look back at that amazing 1989 album during the Confessions interview.

Madonna on Like A Prayer:
I think that’s the record I started to write more serious lyrics. With Like a Prayer and Live to Tell, I think that was the first time I started writing songs that were more soul searching and deeper, asking questions about life, dealing with my relationships, with my family, my parents, my husband, life in general. I think it was a turning point for me as a song writer.