The Empress Strikes Back
As previously reported, Time‘s full interview with Madonna has been posted on Time.com today Sunday, November 5 and will appear in the issue of Time magazine hitting newsstands tomorrow, November 6.
Here are a few other excerpts – check out the full story on Time.com:
Madonna, facing criticism about her new son, comes out swinging
On Oct. 12, Madonna and her husband, Guy Ritchie, were granted temporary custody of a 13-month-old Malawian orphan named David Banda. This sparked a storm of accusations, ranging from the criminal – that Madonna used her fame to bypass adoption procedures – to the scathing – that Madonna is a dilettante, treating an African child as this season’s must-have accessory. The legal issue has been laid to rest – no laws were violated – but Madonna still had plenty to get off her chest in a rare print interview with Time’s Josh Tyrangiel.
Time: Is being Madonna still as fun as it used to be?
Madonna: Fun? Oh, I don’t know. Fun. [Several second pause] Fun’s kind of an overrated word. I’m not sure what you mean by that. Do I enjoy aspects of my life? Because what being Madonna is – are you talking about my professional career?
Time: All of it.
Madonna: Well, I do get joy out of it. It’s not smooth sailing by any means, but I enjoy a great deal of it, otherwise I wouldn’t do it. But I also know that if you’re going to try and change things – change anything really – you’d better be prepared to find yourself in the headquarters of hell. That’s just how it works. But with resistance comes growth. If you go to a gym and lift weights and its easy then your muscles aren’t going to grow. Your muscles grow because you’re struggling against something.
Time: Do you enjoy the resistance as much as you used to?
Madonna: Sometimes. Sometimes I do. There is a part of me that is secretly enjoying pissing people off, because I know that when you’re pissing people off you’re often doing the right thing. What I hope I’m doing better now than I used to do is picking the right battles to fight, and not just being provocative for the sake of being provocative.
Check out the full interview on Time.com now and on Time Magazine, in the newstands tomorrow.