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Madonna: 'My priority is family'Performer appears on 'Larry King Live' Thursday night
(CNN) -- Madonna may have spent much of her career devoted to the star-making machinery and looking out for No. 1, but now that she's settled down with husband Guy Ritchie and two children, family comes first -- even if the rest of her life is running her ragged. "My priority is my family, absolutely, 100 percent," she said in a taped interview that appeared on Thursday's "Larry King Live." "Somehow we make things work. We don't sleep very much." Madonna and Ritchie brought the whole clan along during the shooting of the performer's new movie, "Swept Away," a remake of Lina Wertmuller's 1974 classic, "Swept Away ... by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August." The movie opens Friday. The original plot concerned a wealthy woman who ends up with a communist working-class sailor when she goes yachting on the Mediterranean. But Wertmuller's film had a political agenda, with class struggle and the battle of the sexes underneath the surface of its comic-romantic tale. Madonna and Ritchie's film is "more modern and funnier," according to the star. "It's a great story," she said. "We shot the movie in Malta and Sardinia, and it was a huge benefit that I was married to the director and so we were together as a family the entire time." 'There's more to life'Madonna also talked about her childhood in Michigan, her spiritual growth, and the issues of celebrity. The performer, who was born Catholic, wears a Jewish star and is one of several Hollywood celebrities who have taken to following cabala, or Jewish mysticism. She says, however, that she hasn't converted to Judaism. "I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense," she said, noting that she was attracted to the metaphysical in cabala. "I was looking for something. I mean, I'd begun practicing yoga and, you know, I was looking for the answers to life. ... I know there's more to life than making lots of money and being successful and even getting married and having a family." She acknowledged that her early career was about making it big, but that things sometimes didn't go as she expected. "I was dancing for years in Manhattan and not making a very good living," she said. "I started auditioning for musical theater, and somebody saw me at an audition ... and they said, 'Hey, sweetheart, we're going to make you a star' type of thing. ... "And they took me to Paris and they kind of put me into this star-making machinery, but I wasn't ready for it. And after six months I flipped out and had to come back to New York." 'I was very impulsive'Within a few years, though, she got a break when she had a couple hit singles, and cemented her fame with an appearance on the 1984 MTV Video Music Awards. She told the story coyly. "I think I was rolling around on the stage in my underpants. I think I did something like that," she said. "I was very impulsive in my youth." In fact, she rolled around lasciviously in a revealing lingerie-like wedding dress to her hit, "Like a Virgin." But after years in the public eye, she said she now generally avoids the media when she isn't promoting a movie or album. She said she doesn't read newspapers or magazines or watch television. "It's not going to do me any good," she said. "I mean, most of it is sensationalistic. ... It's completely ephemeral. Completely illusory. And so I'd like to pay attention to what's real."
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