Madonna: Back On The Job

Madonna hasn't let motherhood or a recent horseback riding accident slow her down.

In fact, observes The Early Show national correspondent Tracy Smith, you could argue that she's busier than ever.

"The Material Girl" gave Smith an exclusive interview as Madonna visited MTV's "TRL," whose audience gave her a wild welcome.

It's been two decades since Madonna first appeared on MTV but, says Smith, even to fans who weren't born then, Madonna is as big as it gets.

She was appearing on TRL to promote her new album, "Confessions on a Dance Floor," which Madonna told Smith is an "all-dance record. I decided I wanted to make a record that made people happy, that lifted people up, that gave people hope. And I wanted to make a record where you could put it on and, for a whole hour, you could dance nonstop and not have to skip past anything, skip past slow songs, or go to another record."

But, Smith points out, Madonna's life is about more than music these days.

She's a children's book author with two kids of her own, and she's determined to raise them right."The number one rule," Madonna says, "is to be grateful and say, 'Please' and 'Thank you.' Yeah. That's the number one rule. … Cleaning your room, that's another one. Brushing your teeth."

And if they don't do those things?

"Oh, I just scream and nag at them, like most parents."

Looking at her, Smith remarks, you'd never know that, on her 47th birthday in August, she broke several bones falling off a horse.

"I had to do nothing for a month, which was excruciatingly painful for me, to just sit still and let my bones heal," Madonna recalls, describing it as, "the hardest thing I've ever done. And after that, starting to do rehab religiously, and taking lots of supplements. And I had to stop drinking coffee and, uh, nightmare. Nightmare."

Is she shaken?

"No. I'm OK. I'm OK. I'm not completely 100 percent yet, but I'm getting there."

Madonna even took time to give Smith a quick dancing lesson, involving arm rolls.

She has a documentary coming out called, "I'm Going to Tell You a Secret."

It's premiering Tuesday night in New York. Smith will be there, and have a sneak peek Wednesday, along with a red carpet report.

Later in the week, the documentary will be on three MTV network channels: MTV, VH1 and Logo, all of which are owned by Viacom, as is CBSNews.com.