I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it.

It's impossible to write and produce a record when your parents are dying. I really tried, I really, really tried, but it just wouldn't come.

I'm used to getting up at 7, getting breakfast, getting the kids off to school, and doing the mommy thing and the wife thing and the daughter thing.

I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with my songs.

Time has nothing to do with the gifts that the gods give you; it's what you do.

Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.

I have as many pictures of my vocal cords as I do of my children. I have a great ear, nose and throat doctor, and we look at them - if there's some redness, maybe I'll take a little time off.