Madonna Humps Interview

Madonna poses for Interview April issue, illuminates Malawi issues and promotes her album - Hard Candy.


Steven Klein

Madonna on adopting her son David: He wouldn't have lived if I hadn't taken him. It's not even a possibility.

Madonna on bringing daughter Lourdes with her to Malawi: She spent several weeks working in the orphanages, particularly one with newborn children, and most of them were HIV-positive. She so came into her own and was so responsible and stayed for eight hours every day and worked tirelessly. I thought, why am I babying her so much? She's capable of so much more. We don't let kids do anything. We think, Oh, they're kids -- they can't take care of other kids; they can't do this; they can't do that. And after you go to Africa, you drop all that silliness.

Hard Candy drops worldwide on April 29 release. And Justin Timberlake will induct Madonna into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at NYC's Waldorf-Astoria hotel on Monday, March 10.