Madonna gets emotional returning to the studio

The 53-year-old took a break from her music career to direct W.E. but returns tomorrow with a new album, MDNA. "It's amazing to be back in music. I like the intimacy of a recording studio and songwriting. I'm using a different part of my brain when I work on music versus when I'm directing a film," she told thesun.co.uk. "It's very different. I love doing both, but it was nice to have the simplicity of songwriting after three years of writing a script and directing and editing and talking about my film, to sit down and play my guitar and sing a song. I almost cried," she said. Madonna also said she refuses to listen to other artists' work when she is recording because she needs to work from a clean slate with no external influences, reports femalefirst.co.uk.