Success breeds the excitement to continue going.

Music is a great vehicle for communications, and I have a certain platform. I have an opportunity and I have to take it.

In a sense, the music business and I haven't always been the best of bedfellows. Artists often have to fight their corner. Your music goes through these filters of record labels and media, and you're hoping you'll find someone who'll help you get your work into the world.

I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage.

I have always felt a little homeless. It's a strange thing.

The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.

I sang a lot as a little girl and entered competitions. I loved singing in choirs, but it was as I got older that I really found my voice.