'She's a great lady. If you watch her on TV or in her videos, you get the perception of her as a real hard person who says 'Fuck' for twenty minutes on David Letterman. In person, she's nothing like that. I don't remember her swearing to excess when we were out together. She always handled herself elegantly.'

'Whenever I was with her I always knew I was around a woman who had power and knew how to wield it. She is a big-time businesswoman, and she knows exactly what…

'In a way I respect Madonna for the things she introduced because she introduced some subversive things and it has nothing to do with sex as far as I'm concern…

'She is very natural. I did not get to know her as a person but she is down-to-earth and straightforward. She just speaks her mind.' [17] DJ Gordon Edge