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· She says she's a workaholic: "I hate taking breaks - people come back lethargic, the energy's down. I mean, I bring my soya milk and my apple and my rice chips to the studio and I just want to keep working straight through."

.She reckons she gets scared a lot. "The truth scares me. Being alone scares me. Failure scares me. Dying scares me. I don't think in that sense I'm any different from anybodyelse."

· When she was eating recently in a New York hotel she only agreed to give the head waiter an autograph in return for lots of "those. really thin wafer cookies".

· She tries to Iive as normal a life as possible. "I don't go around in Iimousines, I don't have bodyguards, l like to be pretty low key. When I'm shopping and people in the stores say 'can I have your autograph?' I give them autographs. If I had a bodyguard the bodyguard would get rid of them, but then he'd follow me everywhere."

· Her Spanish-style villa in Malibu, California is in a canyon surrounded by 50 acres of land. "lt's wonderful' We have a big gate so it's pretty private and we have a view of the ocean and great mountains in the back yard."

· When she's there she misses New York "so I come back and get a taste of it, get everything stolen, get my nerves racked, get splashed by taxi cabs and then I go back to the nice weather."

· Madonna has a cleaning lady who comes in twice a week but she still likes washing the dishes herself. "I have this cleaning impulse someties. I think I got it from my stepmother who cleaned everything in sight all the time."

. Her lawyer is fed up that she's got so thin. "He's like 'you've lost weight- my daughter's going to be so upset. You finally gave girls · who are voluptuous a new lease on life, don't · get any skinnier, OK?'"

· The other week she had a sapphire bracelet stolen from her New York hotel room - at the previous hotel she'd visited, her engagement ring had been pinched.