"If you are threatened by me as a female or you think I’m doing too much or saying too much or being too much of a provocateur, then no matter how great of a song I write or how amazing of a film I make, you’re not going to allow yourself to enjoy it," Madonna told the Advocate, "because you’re going to be too entrenched in being angry with me or putting me in my place or punishing me."

Madonna confesses that she spent a lot of time caring about the bad things people or press say about her, but she claims to have moved on. "I don’t really dwell on it anymore. I used to be kind of fixated on it and think, It’s not fair, it’s not fair, it’s not fair, but it is what it is, and I just have to get on with my life."