Rolling Stone: Did you do graffiti?
Madonna: Walls, subways, sidewalks…
Rolling Stone: What was your tag?
Madonna: Boy Toy.
Rolling Stone: No shit! Who came up with Boy Toy?
Madonna: It could have been Futura. He’s clever. He painted the whole inside of my bedroom on 99th, which my landlord was not happy about. We had a little gang — Debi Mazar was part of it. We called ourselves the Webo Girls — like huevos, girls with balls.
Rolling Stone: Do you own paintings by Warhol, Haring, or Basquiat?
Madonna: I have a few of each. Keith and Andy did four pieces for me as a wedding present when I married Sean. They’re pictures of me from the cover of the New York Post when all the nude photographs of me came out in Playboy and Penthouse. The headline says I’M NOT ASHAMED. So they took all these Post covers and painted over them. They’re in my house in L.A. — a signpost, a watershed moment. I also have a leather jacket that Keith Haring painted on that I would never give up.
From Austin Scaggs’ excellent interview with Madonna in the new Rolling Stone, which as a whole makes me wonder if Madonna had the best 20s of anyone who has ever lived. (via perpetua) (via douglaswolk)