I've always wanted to marry Elton John.

I never wanted to be a performer, that was not one of my goals. I wanted to be a musician and that was that.

Keep your family and old friends around you. That's what I had done and that's what saved my life when it came to being famous.

First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.

Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies show. If you come to the shows, they're full of muscle. 'Copacabana' sounds like it could have been released yesterday.

You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.

I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.