Madonna presents „Spiritual Girl“ image

London – Madonna says she wants to shed her Material Girl image and start helping the world. „I‘d like to be more involved in making the world a better place,“ the popular American singer and actress told Britain‘s mass-circulation Daily Mirror newspaper on Thursday. „I‘d like to be more concerned about humanity,“ said the 44-year-old pop superstar. Madonna, who once made a nude appearance in a bestselling book called „Sex“ and adopted a raunchy image to sell millions of her records, this time appeared to be displaying a more spiritual side of hers. „There is only one thing that lasts and that‘s your soul and if you don‘t pay attention to that, all the money in the world is not going to help you. „I‘d like to be more involved in bringing about world peace,“ she added. „I can write the greatest songs and make the most fabulous films and be a fashion icon and conquer the world, but if there isn‘t a world to conquer, what‘s the point?“ Madonna said her marriage to British film director Guy Ritchie in December 2000 had made her more selfless. As she put it, „I think we have both become a lot more generous and both find ourselves doing things we wouldn‘t have done if we hadn‘t met.“ Ritchie, 34, directed his wife in the forthcoming film „Swept Away“ in which she plays a socialite shipwrecked on an island. „There were times when he irritated me as a husband, but I had to leave that at home,“ she said. (Reuters)