Madonna Rolling Stone Magazine October 2009

Madonna is opening up in an interview with Rolling Stone in their October 2009 issue.

Check out some highlights from her interview with the mag below and CLICK HERE for more Madonna and Rolling Stone.

On her high school years:  “I was a geek in high school. I didn’t really have a drink until I got divorced for the first time [from Sean Penn] when I was 30.  ‘Geek’ is not a word anyone uses to describe me, except perhaps [‘Confessions on a Dance Floor’ producer] Stuart Price, who once said, ‘You know, you’re a nerd at heart, nobody knows it.’ I took it as a compliment.”

On her divorce from Guy Ritchie: “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.”

On Lady Gaga: “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.”

“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.”

On her biggest fashion mistake: “It was the purple lipstick, fluorescent-green sweater combo.  It’s OK, it was the ‘80s. It was a bad-hairstyle era. Let’s face it.”

On who she would like to work with:  “I wanted to work with Eminem.  I don’t think he wanted to work with me. Maybe he’s shy.”