Madonna has spoken to Interview magazine about how well she got on with Justin Timberlake when working on material for her upcoming new album. "I really enjoy writing with Justin" she said. "We had psychoanalytic sessions whenever we wrote songs first. We'd sit down and we'd start talking about situations. And then we'd start talking about issues or problems or relationships with people. That was the only way, because you know, writing together with somebody is very intimate....that was fun, because he's open and he's got talent. He's a songwriter. I haven't worked with a lot of songwriters where I'm instantly connected and start riffing and playing with the rhythm of the words. He's as interested in the rhythm of the words as the meaning of the words".
The singer, who is to be inducted into the US Rock n Roll Hall Of Fame today, also discussed her controversial adoption of little Malawian boy David Banda. She explained that the boy "wouldn't have lived" if she'd left him where he was, and also went on to speak about how her own daughter Lourdes had rolled up her sleeves and helped out for several weeks at orphanages in Malawi. She's quoted as saying: "She so came into her own and was so responsible and stayed for eight hours every day and worked tirelessly. I thought, why am I babying her so much? She's capable of so much more. We don't let kids do anything. We think, Oh, they're kids - they can't take care of other kids; they can't do this; they can't do that. And after you go to Africa, you drop all that silliness".