'I just want to say how much I enjoyed Madonna's performance. She is an absolute professional and she makes us all look like amateurs.' (On EMA's 2005).

I'd rather do it with Madonna She's what a woman's supposed to be Oh Madonna won't you do it with me? The only girl I'll ever need She's really got me on my kn…

'Madonna is the ultimate in our day and age of the grass being greenest. Guy Ritchie is a lucky man. I do happen to fancy Madonna. She rehearses her arse off. …

'I see what she does and I say 'Nice try honey, but you're not doing anything I didn't do twenty years ago.'