d all that are really what made her special, what made her succeed. But you also have to know when to quit, right? You have to know when to hold them and know when to fold them.

And I feel like Madonna has — she probably has lots of room left on her career, but I'm not sure that playing the sexy senior citizen was exactly the right way to play this. I don't know who's advising Madonna, but I feel that the advice goes like this these days: "You know, Madonna, if you're not too busy, I've been watching your latest promotions and my just little productive positive read — really not a criticism at all — I'm just saying that some people, not me, not me, but some people feel as though maybe because of your age and the weird way you look — I don't mean weird, I mean non-standard, I mean better than most people but different, different. Some people say weird. I don't say it's weird, not me. But some people are saying that and they're cruel and awful. But I'm just wondering, just putting the idea out there that maybe you should rethink a little bit your image." And see, I don't feel as though Madonna has good advice. You know what I mean? I don't feel like she has good advice. Clearly there's nobody giving her an honest opinion about what's going on here. Like there's nobody in her circle at all who can just say, you know, like, "I'm the one person you'll listen to and