Madonna

Madonna
I’m not going to go into the things she’s done for women. You’d fall asleep, there are so many. Well, name a few. Just the fact that she made it look good to control your own life when that was something that was not supposed to be very sexy for a woman. She’s one of the few women who has remained true to herself and been a character.

Rolling Stone, #695 17 november 1994

Madonna
She asked for ’something Björk’. She also wanted me to sing on the song, to make it a duet. I had written the song especially for her. But my intuition told me that it would be wrong for me to sing on the song. I also refused to meet her officially. When I finally meet her I want it to be totally by coincidence, when we’re both drunk in a bar or something like that.

Raw, janvier 1996

Madonna
I’d heard from a friend who interviewed Björk a few years ago that she wrote the line "Let’s get unconscious, honey," because those were the words she wanted to hear from Madonna. I ask her if this is true, and Björk responds : I think at the time, yes. But that’s like six years ago, when everything around her seemed very controlled. I think she’s a very intuitive person, and definitely her survival instincts are incredible. They’re like, outrageous. At the time, the words I thought she’d say were, ’I’m not using words anymore, let’s get unconscious, honey. Fuck logic. Just be intuitive. Be more free. Go with the flow.’ Right now, she seems pretty much to be going with the flow. This prompts me to ask Björk if she thinks she might have put those mellowing-out thoughts into Madonna’s...

NYLON magazine, #14 june/july 2001

Madonna
I was supposed to get her personal number and call her up, but it just didn’t feel right. I’d love to meet her accidentally, really drunk in a bar. It’s just all that formality that confuses me.

Entertainment Weekly 1995

Madonna
She’s incredibly brave and she’s got a real mischevious quality about her. I find her very compelling, really daring.

SPIN, Interview 98/04

Madonna
She needs more subconscious," Björk says of Madonna, whom she truly admires. She’s all on the outside. So I wanted her to say, Let’s be impulsive for a change, instead of so clever.

Details, 6/95

Madonna
When I was offered to write a song for her, I couldn’t really picture me doing a song that would suit her. But on second thought, I decided to do this to write the things I’ve always wanted to hear her say that she’s never said.

UHF No. 6, 11-12/95

Madonna
There have been several occasions when it has been self-evident for us to meet, but my instinct always told me the situation would get bothersome and faked. She seems to be all brains and no instinct, even if it obviously can’t be so, since she has gotten herself to where she is now. You can also tell by her way of always surviving, that she must have a hell of a lot of instinct. But in the daily life it seems as if she isn’t aware of her subconscious, as silly as it may sound. I have tried to avoid her, as much as I could. I like her, but she seems to be a woman obsessed with material things. The universe she surrounds herself with, I can’t take it. I would much rather just bump into her in a bar by an accident not even knowing who she is.

VeckoRevyn 1995-06-28