There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.

When I record, it feels like I'm in a bubble. There's nothing else in my head right then. It's just that song, and I'm trying to really sound like what the song is about.

I have one pug and one Czechoslovakian dog called Prazsky krysarik.

I'm a country bumpkin. I'm not a showgirl.

No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It's a thin line between celebration and menace.

My life contains so many other things; I have my children, my grandchildren, my two dogs and a big place in the country. I have my own life.

I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me.