 According to biographer Barbara Victor in the book Goddess : Inside Madonna , Madonna wrote the song during her six @-@ month vocal training with vocal coach Joan Leder in preparation of her role in the musical Evita . In a January 1996 interview with Spin magazine , Madonna said that the song was inspired by a happy moment in her life , when she gave a chance to a man she knew , and he was able to fulfill it to her needs . She reversed the situation and wrote the song . Madonna explained , " Often in my songwriting , I take things people say to me and turn them around , and put it in the first person . So it 's actually something that was said to me . " Madonna did not reveal the name of the person who became the main subject of the song . 
