'I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.' [98] Randy Newman

'Madonna is a very dear friend of mine, and shared her knowledge of Kabbalah with me.' [97]

'I've always said that if you didn't know Madonna necessarily, you'd still be curious about the woman in the photograph.' [99] Herb Ritts

'Madonna and I were very, very close for 20, 25 years, and I felt that the media adds so much pressure to celebrities' personal lives that it's really destruct…