The entire interview hasn’t been released, but Rolling Stone are giving away little snippets each day….but it’s the most in-depth interview she’s done in a while, and she covers a lot of subjects like, what she thinks about Lady Gaga…“I see myself in Lady Gaga…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 has that IT Factor. It’s nice to see that at a raw stage.”

And it seems that while she admits her divorce from Guy Ritchie was “challenging” and that she doesn’t like that he has the children at the moment, it seems they share a favourite word, retarded. You’ll recall Guy referred to Madonna as being ‘retarded’ in an interview last week, and now she’s using the exact same word, this time when referring to some of her old songs. When asked about her ability to spot a “hit” she said, “I’ve never been a good judge of what things are going to be huge or not. The songs that I think are the most retarded songs I’ve written, like ‘Cherish’ and ‘Sorry,’ a pretty big hit off my last album, end up being the biggest hits,” she tells RS. ” ‘Into the Groove’ is another song I feel retarded singing, but everybody seems to like it.”

And on her multicultural household she said, “My like house is like a Benetton ad. I have French nannies, my security guards are Israeli, I have assistants from Argentina and Puerto Rico as well as a Japanese assistant and chef, and another chef from Italy. It’s wonderful. I love it.”

Finally, Madonna (who HATES being called Madge), said Justin Timberlake reminds her of Cary Grant, and Eminem must be “shy” because she wanted to work with him but he didn’t want to work with her!”